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Mrs. Alma White, A. B. 



WHY I DO NOT 
EAT MEAT 

By MRS. ALMA WHITE, A. B. 



AUTHOR OF 



Looking Back from Beulah, Gems of Life, Golden Sunbeams, 
Demons and Tongues, The Chosen People, My Trip to the Orient, 
The New Testament Church (2 volumes), The Titanic Tragedy- 
God Speaking to the Nations, Truth Stranger than Fiction, and Ed- 
itor of Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Fire Junior, London Pillar of Fire, 
The Good Citizen, The Metropolitan and The British Sentinel. 



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(Pillar of Fire) 

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1915 






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Copyright, 1915, by Mrs. Alma White, A. B. 
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PREFACE 



It may be that this volume, dealing as it 
does with man's depravity, will not be very 
enthusiastically received, especially by those 
who have been long accustomed to eating an- 
imal flesh. It is not easy to break up old 
habits where the appetites are involved, in 
fact, it often takes a life and death struggle 
to do so. 

In presenting the remedy of a fleshless diet 
for many of the ills to which humanity is heir, 
opposition is expected, but we have the satis- 
faction of knowing that the truth will triumph 
in the end. John 8 : 32 says, "And ye shall 
know the truth, and the truth shall make you 
free/' There is no possible way to bring 
about reforms and withhold the truth. It 
should go forth, however unpalatable it may 
be. In the titanic struggle of nations, out- 
raged humanity is demanding reparation for 
the many ills they have had to suffer, and the 
result is, great religious and reform move- 
ments are sweeping over the earth. Old 
things are rapidly passing away and the hands 
on the dial point to a new dispensation. 



PREFACE 

As the dispensers of God's word, the learned 
•divines have failed, and the great need of the 
hour is for some one with Scriptural under- 
standing to enlighten the people. The truth 
alone will stand when the sledge-hammer of 
God's w r ord is battering down the fortresses 
that have stood for centuries. 

The subject of a fleshless diet, however it 
may be ignored by some, is of vital importance, 
and will play its part in bringing about a new 
era. It behooves those who are inclined to 
hold to their old theories and practices not to 
be too hasty in passing judgment before the 
facts are presented, lest they should be found 
later in an embarrassing position. 

A carnivorous appetite is one of the results 
of the fall, and the Scriptures teach that the 
curse must be lifted off both man and beast, 
and also from the earth, which God said He 
had cursed for man's sake. Isaiah 1 1 : 7-9 
says, "And the cow and the bear shall feed; 
their young ones shall lie down together : and 
the lion shall eat straw like the ox. * * * They 
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy moun- 
tain: for the earth shall be full of the knowl- 
edge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." 

The Author. 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 
Man Originally not Carnivorous 
Moral and Spiritual Issues — "Commanding to 
Abstain from Meats" — Flesh not Originally a Part 
of Man's Diet — Message of the Apostles to New 
Converts — Vegetables Build Up, Meat Tears Down — 
Lower Animals not Carnivorous before the Fall — 
Millennial Conditions — Poisoned by Eating Chicken — 
Foot and Mouth Disease Among Cattle — The Hog 
an Unclean Animal — Awful Crime of a Butcher's 
Child. 

CHAPTER II 

Man Under the Curse 

Cain and Abel — Noah and His Family — "As it 
was in the Days of Noah" — Man's first Permission to 
Eat Flesh — A great Price Paid — Story of Entombed 
Miner and His Craving for Flesh. 

CHAPTER III 
Sacrificial Offerings 
Christ, the Better Sacrifice — Blood of Beasts 
Could not Atone for Sin — The Fallacy of Transub- 
stantiation — The last Passover — The Bread and Wine 
of the New Covenant — Why Man was Permitted to 
Eat Flesh— The Rent Veil— Priesthood Forever Abol- 
ished — Erroneous Teachings of Roman Catholics — 
"Be not deceived." 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER IV 
Israel Cried for Flesh in the Wilderness 
A Nation set Free— The "Mixt Multitude"— 
Manna Given — Israelites preferred Slavery Rather 
than to Deny Their Appetites — The People Cry for 
Flesh — The Border-land Experience — Scenes on Ocean 
Liners — Flesh is Fuel that Feeds the Flames of Pas- 
sion — Sentiment Against Slaughtering Animals Grow- 
ing — Flesh of all Kinds of Animals on Sale. 

CHAPTER V 

Daniel Refuses the King's Meat 

A Diet of Pulse and Water — Interpreting the 

King's Dream — God Always has People to Whom He 

can Speak — The Secret of Daniel's Success — Daniel 

in' the Lions' Den — The Lion Nature. 

CHAPTER VI 
How the Lord Spoke to Me 
Great Revivals — Convicted for Eating Flesh — 
A Vision and what Resulted from It — Opening of 
Bible School — Visit to Packing-house — Thanksgiv- 
ing Turkeys. 

CHAPTER VII 
Flesh Gradually Eliminated 
Meat and Fish Donated — Meat Markets of Lon- 
don — Modern Preachers do not tell People to Restrain 
Their Appetites — The Lenten Season — Beginning of 
the Meat Controversy — The Sons of Eli — Expe- 
riences in Denver — Light from Heaven. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER VIII 
Putting Up the Standard 
A Remarkable Service — Money Given for Lon- 
don — Experiences on the Ocean — Beginning of a Re- 
vival — Back to America — The Revival Spreads — 
Standard put up on Meat — Another Trip to London 
— Experiences in Eating Fish — Suffering with Rheu- 
matism — Fish eliminated — London Property Pur- 
chased. 

CHAPTER IX 
A New Epoch 
Home Again — Two Farms Purchased — Danger 
from Living in Large Cities — Jesus Fed the Multi- 
tudes — The Disciples Went Fishing — Did not Jesus 
eat Fish? — The Question Answered — Experiences at 
Zarephath. 

CHAPTER X 

Light on the Scriptures 

A Bridge Between Judaism and Christianity — 

Perplexing Questions Settled — Offerings to Idols — 

Woman's Ministry — Meat and Liquor Curse must go 

— Peter's Vision. 

CHAPTER XI 
How to Reduce the Cost of Living 
Economic Measures being Forced upon the Na- 
tions — Great Suffering Among the Poor — "Blessed 
are the Merciful" — The Gadarenes Choose Hogs In- 
stead of Christ — The Cruelty of the American Indian 
— Sufferings of Cattle on the Western Plains. 



ADDENDA 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

Mrs. Alma White, ------ Frontispiece 

PAGE 

"And a Little Child shall lead Them" - - - 17, 

The Man and the Hog -------- 24 

These must face the Assassin and Surrender their 

Lives ------------ 27 

Noah Receives the Dove -------35 

"His Couch was a Bed of Straw in a Manger" - 39 

Christ Ended Sacrificial Offerings - - - - 53 

The Rent Veil ----------- 61 

Israelites Gathering Manna ------- 72 

The Children of Israel Weeping for Flesh - - 77 

Devouring Decaying Flesh ------- 81 

Binding the Strong Man -------84 

"The Flesh of all Kinds of Animals is on Sale in 

the Markets" --------- 89 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

Daniel in the Lions' Den ------- 102 

"And Behold, an Hand Touched Me" - - - 106 

"The Lord does not Want You to have It" - - 112 

The Hogs were Stuck and Thrown into the Boil- 
ing Water ---------- 118 

The First Victim was an Innocent Looking Cow - 122 

The Fish Became Burdensome - - -. - - 128 

Going to the Slaughter --------130 

Priests Taking out Meat with a Fleshhook - - 135 

"Perhaps You can use This Somewhere" - - 145 

Scores Wrestled with God and Obtained "the 

Blessing" ---------- 150 

For Days we were in a Terrible Storm - - - 159 

On the Farm ----------- 161 

He Reached the Shore in a Pitiful Plight - - 172 

Bridging the Gulf Between Judaism and Chris- 
tianity - ---------- jyy 

Peter's Vision ----------- 188 

A Western Dairy Herd -------- 193 

A Band of Indians Moving ------- 200 

Cattle on the Western Plains ------ 205 



Why I Do Not Eat Meat 



CHAPTER I 
Man Originally not Carnivorous 

In this age of progress, the question 
of eating flesh, from economic and hygienic 
points of view, is being widely discussed. In 
this volume it is my purpose to dwell more on 
the moral and spiritual issues involved, taking 
the Scriptures as the basis for argument. 

Some renderings in the authorized ver- 
sion are misleading, among them those with 
reference to meat. More modern transla- 
tions give a better understanding of the orig- 
inal meaning of these passages. 

Weymouth's version of the New Testa- 
ment, which is growing in favor, almost dis- 
cards the word "meat," and uses "food" in- 
stead. This throws light on i Tim. 4: 3, 
which is often quoted in defense of meat. 
"Commanding to abstain from meats," should 
read, "Insisting on abstinence from foods 



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which God has created to be partaken of, with 
thankfulness. * * For everything that God 
has created is good," instead of "every crea- 
ture." Much stress has been laid upon "crea- 
ture," which we find is incorrect. 

"Everything" means the articles of food 
that God has made to be eaten. Flesh was 
not originally a part of man's diet. He was 
given the fruits of the ground on which to 
subsist. Genesis i : 29 says, "Behold, I have 
given you every herb bearing seed, which 
is upon the face of all the earth, and every 
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield- 
ing seed; to you it shall be for meat." 

There is no animal flesh here. The fruits 
of the ground were sufficient to sustain life 
then, and so they are today. 

In the 15th chapter of Acts, we have an 
account of a message sent by the apostles and 
elders from the church at Jerusalem to the 
Christian converts atAntioch,Syria andSilicia. 
With the desire to put' no unnecessary bur- 
den upon them, they said, "For it seemed good 
to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you 
no greater burden than these necessary things ; 
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, 
and from blood, and from things strangled, 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 1 3 

and from fornication: from which if ye keep 
yourselves, ye shall do well." The correct 
translation is, "You must abstain from things 
sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things 
strangled, and from fornication. Keep your- 
selves clear of these things" (Weymouth). The 
30th verse says, "They, therefore, having 
been solemnly sent, came down to Antioch, 
where they called together the whole assembly 
and delivered the letter," and then follows, 
"The people read it, and were delighted with 
the comfort it brought them." 

There was no protest from these heathen 
converts against the restrictions that had been 
put upon them. They received the message 
with joy. Of course the Gentiles were accus- 
tomed to the eating of meat, but after they em- 
braced the Christian faith, there were rad- 
ical changes in their habits and customs. 
Nearly 2,000 years have passed, and with all 
the light that has come down the ages, we find 
many professed Christians in greater dark- 
ness today than they were in the days of Paul. 

Anything that dies of itself is virtually 
strangled. Fish, or the gill-bearing vertebrates 
are suffocated when taken out of the water, and 
what can be the difference between the two? 



14 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

As to what is involved in abstaining 
from blood, we leave our readers to be 
the judges. Is there not blood in all kinds 
of flesh? Where is the line to be drawn? 
Was the blood to be taken out of the 
meat before it was eaten? If so where 
are the professed Christians who are do- 
ing it? As yet we have not seen or heard 
of them. The meat that is eaten is usually 
bought from butchers who are under no re- 
strictions whatever. They slaughter animals 
as the heathen did centuries before Christ, — 
the old barbaric practices are still in vogue. 
The wheels of time are rapidly bringing us to 
a new epoch, the light is flashing from the 
sacred page, and sentiment is being crystalized 
that is destined to bring about a revolution 
in the practice of slaughtering animals to be 
consumed upon man's lusts. 

If animal flesh were absolutely necessary to 
man's existence, there might be some argument 
in favor of its use, but it has been too often 
demonstrated that most of the physical ail- 
ments with which humanity is afflicted result 
from a carnivorous appetite. Dead flesh is 
taken into the system, and for a time it serves 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 1 5 

as a stimulant, but later saps the vitality and 
leaves the physical powers weakened and in a 
deteriorated condition. 

Fruits, vegetables and cereals build up the 
tissues, whereas meat tears them down. As a 
result of eating an undue amount of meat, the 
reaction often causes a ravenous appetite, 
which nothing but more flesh can satisfy. The 
more one eats, the more he wants, and he will 
often sacrifice principle and virtue to obtain 
it. The moral standard of those whose diet 
consists principally of flesh is usually low. 
Experience has demonstrated the fact that 
such persons are never spiritual. If they 
should get salvation, it is difficult for them 
to keep it, unless their carnivorous appetites 
are conquered. 

"And to every beast of the earth, and to 
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that 
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, 
I have given every green herb for meat" (Gen. 
1: 30). This shows that not even the lower 
animals were carnivorous until after the fall, 
and many of them do not eat flesh now. Man, 
in some respects, is on a lower plane than 
the animals. 



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The world has been under the curse of 
carnivorism for nearly six thousand years, and 
it is time for her deliverance. The price of her 
redemption has been paid at infinite cost, and 
every revolution she makes in her orbit 
brings her nearer to the time when 
Isaiah's prophecy will be fulfilled: "The 
wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the 
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the 
calf and the young lion and the fading to- 
gether ; and a little child shall lead them. And 
the cow and the bear shall feed; their young 
ones shall lie down together : and the lion shall 
eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child 
shall play on the hole of the asp, and the 
weaned child shall put his hand on the cock- 
atrice' den. THEY SHALL NOT HURT 
NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY 
MOUNTAIN : for the earth shall be full of 
the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover 
the sea." This shows conclusively that the 
time is coming when both man and beast shall 
be delivered from their carnivorous appetites. 
Who will take the responsibility of helping 
to continue the curse, saying the time is not 
yet? 

If the millennium is ever brought about, 



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there must be a beginning, and a willingness 
to accept the truth when it presents itself. 
"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, 
now is the day of salvation." Those who 
meet the conditions by which actual sin is 
destroyed from their hearts are rewarded 
by getting a millennial experience. Then 
why not cease to slay and eat flesh, inasmuch 
as it is a part of the curse which must be 
put away? 

James says, "From whence come wars and 
fightings among you? come they not hence, 
even of your lusts that war in your members? 
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to 
have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, 
yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, 
and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that 
ye' may consume it upon your lusts." This 
shows the depths of depravity to which man 
has fallen. He asks for those things which 
are not to the glory of God, that he may con- 
sume them upon his lusts, and his requests 
are not granted. 

There is much dross to be consumed after 
people obtain salvation. In fact the refining 
just begins when spiritual pollution is re- 
moved, and unless there is submission to 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 19 

the whole will of God, His presence cannot 
be retained. 

Our civil governments are just what the 
people make them, and therefore transfor- 
mation must begin with the individual. If 
those whom Christ has accepted remain 
in a half-barbarous state, those about them 
can rise no higher. The Church is the 
pillar and ground of truth, and she should be 
like a city set on a hill whose light cannot be 
hid. To kill and devour is inconsistent with 
the spirit of Christ, who said, "Blessed are 
the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." 
He also said, "I have meat to eat that ye know 
not of. * * My meat is to do the will of him 
that sent me, and to finish his work" (John 4: 
32-34). One of the most conclusive signs that 
we are living in the last days, is the way peo- 
ple eat. 

Before wars shall cease, men will have to 
stop killing animals and devouring their flesh. 
While murderous propensities are fostered 
and the brute creation continues to be sacri- 
ficed to satisfy the cravings of men, they will 
slay one another. The principles of murder 
are deeply seated in the lower and baser na- 
ture, and when conditions are such as to favor 



20 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

their development, crime will be the result. 
Men who ruthlessly slay animals, under cer- 
tain conditions will slay one another. They 
have become hardened to suffering, and it 
matters but little to them where pain is in- 
flicted. The lowing of the cow, or the bleat- 
ing of the sheep that is being lead to the 
slaughter, fails to awaken sympathy in them, 
and when they give place to anger or revenge, 
little do they care for the wounds of their 
fellowmen. 

Man was created in the image of God and 
a little lower than the angels, but oh, the depths 
to which he has fallen! Lucifer, the star of 
the morning, hurled him down the preci- 
pice by working through his fleshly appetites, 
and he grovels in the dust and filth of this 
world. Christ would fain lift him up, wash 
away his sins, and make him whiter than 
the driven snow, but he refuses to let Him do 
so, and continues to live in barbarism. 

At this writing 300 persons who have 
been poisoned by eating Chicken at a church 
supper at Batavia, N. Y., are under the care 
of physicians. Their ailment is diagnosed as 
ptomaine poisoning. 

Less than half an hour after the supper 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 21 

was served a score became ill. By midnight 
the number had crossed the hundred mark, 
and later reports showed that the entire com- 
pany had been stricken. 

The chickens were purchased from a local 
dealer who declared that he had obtained them 
from farmers especially for the supper. 

We scarcely look at a daily paper without 
finding an account of meat poisoning. At the 
present time the dreadful foot and mouth dis- 
ease is spreading with such rapidity that at 
least fifteen States have been quarantined, and 
the government is slaughtering many thou- 
sands of animals that are affected. The present 
outbreak started at Niles, Mich., the infection 
having been brought from Argentine with a 
shipment of hides to a tannery there. "Foot 
and mouth disease is caused by a germ so 
small that it passes through the finest filter 
and cannot be seen with the most powerful 
microscope. In this respect it is similar to 
hog cholera germs. Cattle are the most 
susceptible, swine next, and sheep and goats 
to a considerable less degree. The disease is vir- 
ulent, highly contagious and spreads rapidly. 
The first symptoms — sore, blistered mouth and 
sores between the toes — appear from a few 



22 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

hours to two or three days after exposure, as 
a rule. * * No remedy for the disease has 
ever been found. * * Foot and mouth disease 
exists in all the cattle-raising countries of Eu- 
rope, and it causes extensive losses every year. 
From Europe it has spread to other countries." 

There are many other diseases prevalent 
among cattle, and diseased meat is being sold 
everywhere. Thousands of tubercular hogs 
are being placed on the market, but of course 
only a few cases are being brought to light. 

When a child I was greatly interested when 
my mother read aloud from the newspapers. 
The Cincinnati Enquirer came to our home, 
and in almost every issue there were accounts 
given where individuals or families were poi- 
soned by trichina in pork, which often re- 
sulted in death. Many times I resolved to 
eat no more pork, but when it was placed be- 
fore me, it was difficult to let it alone. 

I often stood by the stove when pork 
was being prepared for the meal, and in- 
sisted upon its being well cooked for fear 
destructive germs might be left in it. I 
wondered why my parents did not dispense 
with the use of it altogether. But there was 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 23 

not much light in those days, and they con- 
tinued to eat it. 

There is nothing more filthy than swine. 
They will eat all manner of flesh, including 
reptiles. The female will even devour her 
own offspring. I have seen this with my own 
•eyes. 

In the old dispensation, an embargo was 
placed upon the hog. A Hebrew who ate 
swine's flesh was guilty of the greatest mis- 
demeanor and was cut off from his people. 

There are hygienic reasons why swine's 
flesh was pronounced unfit to be taken into 
the human system, and conditions have not 
changed. The swine is the same filthy beast 
today that he was thousands of years before 
the Christian era. Little verification is 
needed to show that pork is unwholesome. 
Medical science, the experience of many thou- 
sands of persons and the teachings of the 
Scriptures should be sufficient. 

If swine's flesh was unfit for the Hebrews 
to eat in the old dispensation, how can we 
make that which has survived the ravages of 
cholera, hog fever, trichina, and so forth, suit- 
able for a Christian? 

Dr. James C. Jackson, from information 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 25 

obtained from hog dealers, declares that nine- 
ty-five hogs in one hundred have ulcers on 
their livers from the size of an ounce bullet to 
a hen's tgg. 

Cancer is closely related to pork, and it is 
said that our Lord, so far as the record gives, 
did not heal people of cancers. The word 
Carcinoma is the Greek word for cancer, and 
does not occur in the New Testament. The 
fact is, cancer was unknown to the Jews, and 
the reason is they did not eat swine's flesh. 

The Israelites were not only prohibited 
from eating the flesh of swine, but were pro- 
hibited from touching their dead carcases. 

There are certain species that are vicious 
and when at large are often the dread of whole 
communities. They will turn on their pur- 
suers and fight with desperation. When killed 
in the heat of passion, there is a peculiar flavor 
in the meat that makes it unpalatable. 

Those who are familiar with the Scrip- 
tures naturally associate demons with hogs. 
Unclean spirits seek a place of habitation, and 
on one occasion at least, when a legion of 
them were cast out of a human being, they 
begged to go into a herd of swine, and the 
result was the whole herd rushed down a steep 



26 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

place into the sea and were drowned. The 
swine had no power to resist the demons, 
neither have unbelievers and apostates, of 
which swine are a type. When a person's 
moral character is not what it should be, he 
becomes an easy prey for evil spirits. 

With thousands of years of history back 
of the hog, and nothing good ever having been 
said of him on the pages of Holy Writ, one 
would think this sufficient to bar him from the 
menu of the civilized world. But the pre- 
sumption of man is often beyond comprehen- 
sion. He challenges the Almighty by disre- 
garding His laws, and when he is afflicted, 
accuses Him of being unjust. 

The curse of sin has turned the world into 
a slaughter pen. The first man born was a 
murderer, and his posterity fills the whole 
earth today. Take a look into the slaughter 
pens, and you will be shocked at cruelties 
akin to murder. Millions of helpless crea- 
tures are crowded into the stock pens,ihemmed 
in so closely they can scarcely move, await- 
ing the fatal blow, which is the beginning 
of a process that is soon to land them on the 
butcher's block to be dealt out to those who 
have no scruples against eating that which 



28 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

has had to suffer and die, to be sacrificed to 
the cravings of their lower natures. 

The sheep, which is the most perfect type 
of the Son of God, must face the assassin and 
surrender its life. Once in his power, there 
is no way of escape. It must be delivered 
up and its flesh consumed without the power 
to protest. 

A person once remarked to a friend, "How 
can you eat a thing that looks out of eyes?" 
and from that time the person addressed 
declared that he could . never sit down , to 
a table where there was mutton, without 
seeing a pair of gentle eyes turned toward 
him, and he could not touch the meat. 
Isaiah 53 : 7 says, "He was oppressed, and 
he was afflicted, yet he opened not his 
mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the 
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers 
is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." 

A child was born, whose father was a 
butcher. The mother of the child helped to 
kill the animals. She took a knife and 
cut the throats of the sheep and no 
doubt had become hardened to their suf- 
fering. When the son of these parents 
reached the age of maturity, he proved to be 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 20, 

a murderer. On one occasion, he took a small 
boy into the woods, tied him to a tree, cut 
out his intestines, and wrapped them around 
the body and the tree. He had tortured other 
victims in a similar manner. When ques- 
tioned as to his motives, he said, "I like to 
hear them scream." 

When the matter was investigated it was 
decided that his condition was due to the pro- 
pensities of his parents for slaughtering 
animals. 

Wherever flesh is in demand, somebody 
has to do the killing, and those who eat of it, 
however high their standard of morals may 
be, cannot escape the penalty of being partic- 
ipants. They suffer not only physically, but 
morally and spiritually. 

The animal nature in man is stimulated by 
a diet of flesh. It is a fuel that feeds the 
flames of passion and that leads to many di- 
versions from the path of virtue. The so- 
called civilized nations of today will be looked 
upon by future generations as having been 
half-barbarous or savage, and not far removed 
from cannibalism. And until they suppress this 
organized, systematic taking of life to satisfy 
the desires of the flesh they may expect to see 



30 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

their subjects slaughtered in just such wars 
as are now raging between the great powers. 

Let restraint be removed and the flames of 
passion will break loose and demonstrate to 
the world what is deeply seated in man's in- 
most being. From the theater of war comes 
the news that soldiers have suffered the loss of 
ears, eyes, hands, and even their tongues, at the 
hands of those who have laid aside all the 
rules of so-called civilized warfare in order to 
take revenge upon their foes. 

Fish, as well as animals, are affected with 
varieties of tapeworm. Think of some of the 
bait used in catching fish, — angle-worms, 
grasshoppers, flies, etc. The parasites trans- 
mitted by the bait, after the fish is cooked, 
bore their way through the blood vessels and 
imperil life. 

Oysters are a fruitful source of typhoid. 
The most productive oyster beds are found in 
the neighborhood of sewers, — in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the great seacoast cities. 
Anything that lives in beds of mud is unwhole- 
some, even though such beds be removed far 
from human habitation. 

Tapeworm, Rright's disease, and epilepsy, 
are due to eating flesh. Physicians have done 



MAN ORIGINALLY NOT CARNIVOROUS 3 1 

much to enlighten the public on the subject, 
but so few people can control their appetites 
there is but little progress made toward a 
fleshless diet. The statements of physicians 
are not strong enough, it is a matter in which 
appeal must be made to man's conscience and 
his religious nature, i Cor. 3: 17 says, "If 
any man defile the temple of God, him shall 
God destroy/' 



CHAPTER II 
Man Under the Curse 

When Adam and Eve plunged the human 
race into sin, God cursed the ground for their 
sake, and said, "In sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and 
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou 
shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat 
of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thdu re- 
turn unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
thou return" (Gen. 3: 17-19). 

Before the fall, it was not necessary 
to till the ground, for there was noth- 
ing to hinder the growth of vegetation. 
Thorns and thistles, and all useless veg- 
etation was unknown. Great was Ad- 
am's punishment. He had to reap what 
he had sown. The curse was the re- 
sult of his disobedience, and his posterity has 
been under the same inexorable law ever 
since. 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 33 

After Cain slew his brother, Abel, the 
blood he had shed cried out from the ground 
against him, and God said, "When thou tillest 
the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto 
thee her strength," The earth is a desert 
with an oasis here and there, only a small 
portion of ground being tillable for want of 
water or because . of other conditions. 
And after man has done his best, the 
ground that is under cultivation does not 
yield its strength, and thus God withheld 
what he might have had and enjoyed, had it 
not been for his disobedience. In many in- 
stances where every effort is put forth to 
cultivate the ground, the result is partial or 
total failure, and thus man is continually faced 
with the penalty of sin. 

The subject that concerns most people to- 
day is that of labor. It is agitated in every 
avenue of political and social life. There' are 
endless discussions and divisions that often 
result in bloodshed. People not only have 
to toil for their daily bread, but the great 
problem is to find something to do. Millions 
are in the strife for existence. The indus- 
trial systems are becoming more and more 
complicated, and the cry is ever heard from 

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those who claim to be under the heel of the 
capitalist. 

As we near the winding-up of the pres- 
ent age, life, as a result of these things, will 
be more greatly imperiled. The unrest ev- 
erywhere manifest cannot do otherwise than 
precipitate a crisis, and in fact this crisis, in 
a measure, has already come. 

Humanity had become so corrupt before 
the flood that God had to destroy the whole 
human race, except Noah and his family. 
As He looked down from His habitation up- 
on those who were cursed with the sins of 
the flesh, he said, "My spirit shall not always 
strive with man," and declared that He would 
destroy both man and beast that He had 
created, for He said, "It repenteth me that I 
have made them/' 

Noah and his family, however, found 
grace in His sight. It seems remarkable that 
these persons survived, among the millions 
that had to be destroyed on account of their 
sins. Hell reaped an awful harvest. It 
was eternal vigilance on Noah's part that 
kept his family from going down. When 
God saw man's corruption and rebellion, 
He could no longer forbear, and said, 



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"The end of all flesh is come before me; for 
the earth is filled with violence through them; 
and, behold, I will destroy them with the 
earth" (Gen. 6:13). This indicates that man 
and beast shed blood and devoured flesh then 
as they do now, and their violence made it 
necessary to bring on the flood. 

Jesus said, "And as it was in the days of 
Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son 
of man. They did eat, they drank, they mar- 
ried wives, they were given in marriage, un- 
til the day that Noe entered into the ark, and 
the flood came, and destroyed them all" (Luke 
17:26-27). Eating heads the list. The an- 
te-diluvians were undoubtedly "riotous eaters 
of flesh." They shed blood, and it was on ac- 
count of their violence that God was dis- 
pleased. 

The flood symbolizes the nations that 
are to be destroyed in the great trib- 
ulation judgments. Waters, in the Scrip- 
tures, represent people, especially when spok- 
en of in great quantities. Troubled waters 
symbolize people when there is great discon- 
tent and unrest. 

The raven, a carnivorous bird, which 
Noah sent forth, went to and fro until the wa- 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 37 

ters were dried up. The raven symbolizes 
the spirit of war that is in man and upon the 
nations, and there will be no sheathing of the 
sword until man's nature has been radically 
changed. A great step toward improvement 
can be made by dispensing with animal flesh 
which feeds the flames of passion. 

The dove that went forth from the ark 
symbolizes the Holy Spirit, but she found no 
place for the sole of her foot and returned to 
the ark, for the waters were still over the face 
of the whole earth. There is no place in this 
dispensation for the dove of peace to rest, for 
the world is full of violence. The surging 
billows of passion in the wholesale slaughter 
of human beings are spending their force 
in the great war that is now raging. 

Men not only continue to sacrifice mil- 
lions of animals to be consumed upon their 
lusts, but they are slaying one another in 
greater numbers than have ever been known 
in the ages past. 

Angels weep as they look upon the scenes 
of human suffering and desolation, but there 
is no hand to stay the awful carnage. 

The greatest work that a person can be 
engaged in is making peace between man and 



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God. The only dove of peace is that which 
is sent forth from the true Church. Here 
alone does she find a resting-place. 

The Church, of which Noah's ark is 
a type, is a despised body. She has 
found no resting place, and never will until 
the curse of sin has been removed from the 
earth. She is a pilgrim body, tossed upon the 
great Gentile sea, as was the ark, upon the bil- 
lows of the mighty deep. 

Jesus said, "The foxes have holes, and the 
birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of man 
hath not where to lay his head/' Though 
His birth was heralded by angels, and the 
wise men came from the East to do Him 
homage, there was no place for Him in the 
inn. His couch was a bed of straw in a man- 
ger, where the cow, the camel, and the ass, 
made their homes. 

When the heavenly host burst forth in 
their anthems of praise, they said, "On earth 
peace, good will toward men," but where is 
good will to be found among the nations to- 
day? The most of them are in the gigantic 
struggle, and those who have not yet taken 
up arms may have to fight to maintain neu- 
trality, and thus the sword will be forced up- 




HIS COUCH WAS A BED OF STRAW IN 



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on them. The Scriptures say, "All they that 
take the sword shall perish with the sword" 
(Matt. 26:52); also, "He that killeth with 
the sword must be killed with the sword" 
(Rev. 13: 10). 

Abraham sought a city which hath foun- 
dations, whose builder and maker is God. 
The cities of this world have no stable 
foundations, and never has this been 
more fully demonstrated than during the 
recent war. Many of them have been demol- 
ished, and literally millions of people have 
been made homeless by the awful desolation 
where the struggle is going on. The rains 
have descended, the floods have come, the 
winds have blown and beaten upon these cities 
and left them masses of wreckage and ruin. 

Truly, not one jot or tittle of God's word 
shall go unfulfilled. When men cry, "Peace, 
peace," then suddenly calamity falls. While 
iniquity and rebellion abound there can be 
no peace. The violent will clash arms with 
those of kindred spirits. Ambition, jeal- 
ousy and revenge, will add fuel to the flames, 
and destruction will follow in their wake. 
Before there can be lasting peace this world 
must get back into harmony with God. 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 41 

It took time for the waters that covered 
the face of the earth to abate and the great 
billows lashed the sides of the ark, but God, 
who had stood by Noah, and had encouraged 
his faith during the hundred years that it had 
been building, did not forsake him now, neither 
will He forsake those who put their trust in 
Him. Those who were safe in the ark sym- 
bolize the members of the household of faith, 
who keep their garments unspotted from the 
things of the world. The members of Noah's 
family ran no risks with the troubled waters. 
The doors of the ark were closed, and the only 
window of which we have an account seems 
to have been in the top. They could not look 
out, but they could look up. 

And so it is with the child of God, whose 
eyes are fixed on Jesus Christ. The black 
billows of destruction may threaten to 
destroy his soul, but the gates of hell shall 
not prevail against him and the Church of 
which he is a member, if he stands steadfast 
in the faith. 

The true Church, which has stood the 
storms of persecution down the ages, holds 
as firm today as she did When the Apostles 
were suffering martyrdom. She has tri- 



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umphed when she has refused to look at her 
surroundings, showing that her trust was 
not in an arm of flesh, but in the liv- 
ing God. Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, 
said, "Cursed be the man that trusteth in 
man, and maketh flesh his arm/' When Pe- 
ter walked on the sea, he looked at the waves 
and began to sink. There is no greater hin- 
drance to a person's faith than for him to look 
at his surroundings, and imagine that it is im- 
possible to live up to the standard God re- 
quires. Faith makes a path in the deep, and 
disperses the demons of doubt, when there is 
a settled purpose to do the will of God at any 
cost. 

When the dove returned to the ark, No- 
ah reached forth his 'hand and took her in. 
After seven days he sent her out again, and 
this time she returned with a leaf plucked 
from an olive branch. Noah knew then that 
the waters had abated. 

The olive leaf symbolizes peace, and the 
time coming when man and beast shall no 
longer shed blood. When the dove was sent 
forth again she returned no more, symbolic of 
the time coming when the knowledge of the 
Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 43 

sea. Instead of the surging billows, there will 
be rivers and lakes that calmly mirror the face 
of the Son of God as He dwells in the hearts 
of men. 

Then will the swords be beaten into plow- 
shares and the spears into pruning hooks. 
"Nation shall not lift up a sword against na- 
tion, neither shall they learn war any more" 
(Micah4:3). 

After Noah went forth from the ark, he 
took of every clean beast and fowl and made 
an offering unto the Lord, and God was 
pleased with the sacrifice, and made a cove- 
nant with Noah. He said, "J will not again 
curse the ground any more for man's sake; 
for the imagination of man's heart is evil 
from his youth; neither will I again smite 
any more every thing living, as I have done. 
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and har- 
vest, and cold and heat, and summer and win- 
ter, and day and night shall not cease." 

Following this covenant, we find man's 
first recorded permission to eat flesh. His 
fear was to be upon every beast of the earth, 
the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea. 
Into his hands they were delivered. And 
God said, "Every moving thing that liveth 



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shall be meat for you; even as the green herb 
have I given you all things. But flesh with 
the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, 
shall ye not eat." In every case where per- 
mission was given to eat flesh, the blood was 
excluded. 

While man under the curse ate flesh, with 
certain restrictions, God said He would require 
his blood at the hand of every beast, as the 
penalty for taking life. Genesis 9: 5 says, 
"And surely your blood of your lives will I 
require; at the hand of every beast will I re- 
quire it, and at the hand of man; at the hand 
of every man's brother will I require the life 
of man." 

Man has paid a great price to eat flesh. 
Those who slay and eat cannot evade 
the penalty. There are many ways in which 
they may have to suffer. Science has proved 
that the diseases contracted by eating animal 
flesh are destroying the lives of millions. But 
when once the lion of the soul has tasted blood, 
it is almost impossible to curb him. But, thank 
God, there are a few, who have slain this beast 
and are no longer the victims of abnormal 
appetites and desires. 

When God made His covenant with Noah, 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 45 

every living creature was included, and when 
life is ruthlessly taken, man must give an ac- 
count. Matthew 10:29 says, "Are not two 
sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of 
them shall not fall on the ground without your 
Father." Those who do not put a proper es- 
timate upon life, will have to suffer the pen- 
alty. The Psalmist says, "The Lord trieth 
the righteous: but the wicked and him that 
loveth violence -his soul hateth. Upon the 
wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, 
and an horrible tempest : this shall be the por- 
tion of their cup." 

When a person craves flesh, he is virtually 
thirsting for blood, and how little he thinks of 
the suffering of the creatures that are sacri- 
ficed to satisfy his appetite! Some animals 
are endued with intelligence that seems to be 
almost human, and in many instances have 
been known to die of grief when separated 
from their masters. 

Is it any wonder people are often 
haunted by eyes looking up pleading for 
mercy, while there is no voice to speak? 

Not long since, an entombed miner in 
Pennsylvania was reached by a tube after a 
faithful band of rescuers had bored for hun- 



46 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

dreds of feet through solid rock. The tube 
served as a channel through which the man 
was served with liquid food, light and air. 
When the first faint sounds of the miner's 
voice were heard, he was asking for meat. 
But physicians declared that meat in his place 
of confinement would imperil his life, and 
regardless of the fact that he was told this, 
he continued to ask for it. Those who com- 
municated with him tried to show him the 
gravity of the situation and begged him to be 
satisfied with What they were giving him. He 
would quiet down for a time, but after a few 
hours had passed, he would again renew his 
plea for meat. In order to exercise his mus- 
cles and keep his mind employed, he was ad- 
vised to put in some of the time helping to dig 
his way out. He went to work, but soon laid 
down his pick, making the statement that he 
was too weak to work without meat. 

When he was unmanageable, his wife and 
children had to be sent for, to help encourage 
him and steady his nerves. 

There were two shifts, consisting of forty 
men each, who worked night and day for 
eight days before his deliverance was brought 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 47 

about. At times he seemed to be cheerful 
and expressed a desire to talk to different 
members of his family, but again he was 
greatly depressed. From day to day, his 
physicians watched his different moods, fear- 
ing that he might have a mental breakdown. 
Invariably when he seemed depressed in 
spirit, he would plead for meat. And thus 
the lion stalks to and fro in man's inmost be- 
ing, and ill-nature, despondency, and often 
insanity, are the results. 

The cravings and restlessness of man can 
be attributed only to his lower, or animal na- 
ture, and when there is no fuel on which the 
flames of passion can feed, there are often 
disastrous results. 

With death staring the entombed man 
in the face and scarcely a chance in a thou- 
sand for his life, it would seem that his mind 
would have run in a different channel, but 
on the same principle that, from out of the 
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, 
the cravings of his lower nature were made 
manifest. 

Most people die as they live. Friends 
and loved ones may gather in the death cham- 
ber, anxious for their parting message, only 



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to be disappointed and left in doubt as to 
whether the soul winged its flight to the realms 
of bliss or was escorted by demons down the 
dark corridors of damnation. 

Those who have been indifferent in life 
are usually indifferent when the soul is about 
to be separated from the body. Death is an 
enemy, and why should people expect those 
who are being overshadowed by his black 
wings to receive blessing and comfort, when 
they utterly refused to heed the voice of the 
Spirit before the life forces began to abate. 
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for 
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap" (Gal. 6:7). 

Much has been said of death-bed repent- 
ances,, but there is little importance attached 
to them. The dying thief was saved, but it 
was undoubtedly his first opportunity to call 
upon the name of Christ. The world has had 
so much light that there is scarcely any excuse, 
and to put off salvation until the soul is being- 
ushered out of its temple of clay, and then ex- 
pect mercy at the hands of a just God, is a ter- 
rible risk to run, when indifference and rebel- 
lion have been characteristic of one's whole 
life. 



MAN UNDER THE CURSE 49 

There is no cause to fear death when a per- 
son's life has been guided by the Spirit. Gal. 5 : 
16-17 (Weymouth) says, "Let your lives be 
guided by the Spirit, and then you will cer- 
tainly not indulge the cravings of your lower 
natures. For the cravings of the lower nature 
are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the 
cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those 
of the lower nature; because these are antag- 
onistic to each other, so that you cannot do 
everything to which you are inclined." Romans 
8: 12-13 (Weymouth) says, "Therefore, breth- 
ren, it is ndt to our lower natures that we are 
under obligation that we should live by their 
rule. For if you so live, death is near; but if, 
through being under the sway of the Spirit, 
you are putting your old bodily habits to 

death, you will live." 

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CHAPTER III 
Sacrificial Offerings 

Sacrificial offerings fulfilled their purpose 
before the Christian dispensation. When 
Christ hung upon the cross and died, sacri- 
fices for sin were no longer necessary. 
Hebrews 9 : 20 says, "This is the blood of the 
testament which God hath enjoined unto you," 
meaning the sacrificial blood of animals which 
was shed in the Mosaic dispensation. Under 
the law, things were purged with blood, for 
"without shedding of blood is no remission." 

The 23d verse says, "It was therefore 
necessary that the patterns of things in the 
heavens should be purified with these; but the 
heavenly things themselves with better sacri- 
fices than these." Christ himself was the 
better sacrifice. He came to be offered up, 
once for all, bringing to an end the dispensa- 
tion of the law with its sacrificial offerings of 
animals. 

"But now once in the end of the world hath 



SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS 5 1 

he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice 
of himself. * * So Christ was once offered to 
bear the sins of many; and unto them that look 
for him shall he appear the second time with- 
out sin unto salvation." Christ no doubt 
would have come centuries before He did, if 
His death could have been made effectual, but 
man was not ready for Him. He had to 
learn that sin is the transgression of the law, 
and it took time to awaken his conscience and 
discipline him. 

Cain, the first man born on the earth, was 
a murderer, and when the Almighty asked 
him as to the whereabouts of his brother, 
whom he had slain, he replied, "I know 
not: Am I my brother's keeper?" Little 
did he realize what a crime he had committed, 
and the only way he could be brought to see 
it, even in a measure, was to be cast 
out as a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth. 
With the ground cursed for his sake, with 
a mark upon his forehead and every man's 
hand against him, he declared that his pun- 
ishment was greater than he could bear. 

The ante-diluvians failed to profit by Cain's 
punishment, and were all, except Noah and 
his family, destroyed in the deluge. But 



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Cain's posterity did not end with the flood. 
It has come down to the present time, with all 
the marks of depravity which he himself bore. 

There was greater progress made under 
the dispensation of law than had ever been 
made in previous history. As an offering for 
sin, the firstlings of the flock had to be brought. 
No unclean thing could be offered upon the 
sacrificial altars. That which was diseased 
or maimed was not accepted. This was to 
teach Israel the infinite price to be paid for 
man's redemption, and also that the promised 
Messiah, the Redeemer, was to be without 
blemish or imperfections, — perfect man and 
perfect God. 2 Cor. 5:21 says, "For he hath 
made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; 
that we might be made the righteousness of 
God in him." 

Sacrifices had to be made every year, cov- 
ering the sacrificial period of about fifteen 
centuries. The blood of beasts could not 
take away sin, or make the comers there- 
unto perfect. Hebrews 10: 2 says, "For 
then would they not have ceased to be offered ? 
because that the worshipers once purged 
should have had no more conscience of sins." 
They had to go back every year and go through 



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53 



the same process, with new victims. 

While Israel was commanded to make 
these offerings, God. had no real pleasure in 
them, which is shown by the 8th verse of the 
same chapter. "Sacrifice and offering and 




CHRIST ENDED SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS 



burnt offerings and offering for sin thou 
wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure there- 
in; which are offered by the law." But 
Christ said, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O 
God." He took awav the first that He might 



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establish the second. "By the which will we 
are sanctified through the offering of the body 
of Jesus Christ once for all"(Heb. 10: 10). 

The first account we have of man's shed- 
ding animal's blood is Genesis 4:4, where 
Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock, and 
the fat thereof, as an offering for sin. The 
sacrifice, which symbolizes Ohrist, the Lamb 
slain before the foundation of the world, was 
accepted, and thus atonement was made. But 
since Christ was crucified on the cross, why 
should man continue to shed the blood of 
beasts? Is it not too great a price to pay to 
satisfy the lust of the flesh? How little life 
is esteemed by the human race! 

When the Jews were striving among 
themselves, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I 
say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the 
Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no 
life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and 
drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I 
will raise him up at the last day. For my 
flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink in- 
deed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh 
my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him" (John 

6:53-56). 

Flesh symbolizes the broken body of Christ, 



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and any sensible person knows that He did 
not mean His literal flesh and blood. The di- 
vine nature must be taken on through the 
sacrifice that Christ has made of himself. 
The blood symbolizes the life, therefore 
through the shedding of His blood, spiritual 
life is imparted to man when conditions are 
met. 

John 6:57 says, "As the living Father 
hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he 
that eateth me, even he shall live by me." 
This being figurative, shows the erro- 
neous teaching of the Roman Catholic 
Church on the subject of Transubstantiation. 
Millions have suffered martyrs' deaths at the 
hands of the Papacy, because they have re- 
fused to believe that the priests had power to 
convert the bread and wine into the literal 
flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. 

This Popish dogma was first started in 
the ninth century, when there was scarcely a 
ray of light to penetrate the darkness for 
which Rome was responsible, and was official- 
ly approved by the Council of Rome in 1079, 
and was confirmed in 121 5 by the fourth Lat- 
eran Council. "According to this doctrine 
the whole substance of the bread and wine is 



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changed into the body and blood of Christ, 
only the appearance of bread and wine re- 
maining. * * From the doctrine of tran- 
substantiation sprang the adoration of the 
host (or sacred bread), as well as their cus- 
tom of refusing the cup in the communion to 
the laity and the non-officiating priests, a prac- 
tice first authoritatively sanctioned at the 
Council of Constance, 1415." 

It is not surprising that some people could 
be made to believe such heresy in the Dark 
Ages, but that any enlightened person in the 
Twentieth Century should accept such a fab- 
rication is ( beyond comprehension. 

The night that Jesus was betrayed, when 
He ate the Passover with His disciples in the 
upper room, He took bread and broke it, say- 
ing, "This is my body which is given for you : 
this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also 
the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the 
new testament in my blood, which is shed 
for you." 

They ate the bread, which is called His 
body, and drank the wine, in His presence, 
and these were no part of His material body. 
What more is necessary to show that 
the bread and wine were figurative! It 



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is amazing to see man's stupidity. He should 
know that it is the devil's chief object to per- 
vert truth, and that there are no more effectual 
instruments to be found anywhere than with- 
in the pale of the Roman Catholic Church. 
If the truth were known, the priests do not 
believe "in transubstantiation themselves. 
But they must have something to forge the 
chains which bind their subjects to the system. 
The more power there is vested in the priest- 
hood, the more dreadful people are made to 
believe will be the calamity that will fall on 
those who refuse to be dominated by them. 

Before Jesus had finished the supper He 
gave the disciples the cup and said/This cup 
is the new testament in my blood, which is 
shed for you," and not the blood of beasts as 
it had been theretofore. In the New Test- 
ament dispensation the fruit of the vine was 
to be used as a symbol of His blood, and He 
said, "This do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in re- 
membrance of me." 

Wine also symbolizes the Holy Spirit, or 
the blessing of sanctification, which is often 
termed the new-wine experience. When one 
has become filled with the Spirit, he lays no 
great stress on the types. As shadows they 



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flee away, while he enjoys the substance. 

It is inconsistent to continue to shed the 
blood of animals since Christ has suffered 
once for all. It is barbarism to nourish them 
for the slaughter, and the time will come when 
it will be looked upon as such. 

After the Israelites had reached Canaan, 
they were not permitted to make offerings, 
except at the place the Lord had designated. 
If they were too far away, they could eat 
flesh within their gates, but the blood had to 
be poured out and the fat consumed. 

Apart from sacrificial offerings, God 
permitted man to eat flesh in former 
dispensations simply because he lusted 
after it, and would have it. Deut. 12: 
20 says, "When the Lord thy God shall en- 
large thy border, as he hath promised thee, 
and thou shalt say, I WILL EAT FLESH, 
because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou 
mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth 
after." Nothing could be plainer than the 
fact that it was man's depravity and vicious 
propensities that caused God to permit him 
to eat flesh. 

Often He lets people have what they de- 
sire, but it brings leanness to their souls, and 



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usually proves to be their utter destruction. 
Israel pleaded for a king and God gave them 
Saul, who was head and shoulders above all 
other men in Israel. But they had cause to rue 
the day that they ever asked for a king. For 
Saul died by a self-inflicted wound on the 
battle-field. He had forsaken his God and 
in his awful extremity resorted to the witch 
of Endor. God forbid that when light is 
given, any one should continue to plead for 
those things that are detrimental to his soul's 
eternal interests. An unwillingness to sub- 
mit to God's will is sure to prove disastrous 
in the end. 

No true Hebrew will eat meat that has 
been slaughtered by a Gentile. A Rabbi over- 
sees the work and puts his stamp on it before 
it is placed on sale in a Hebrew market. The 
fact is, the slaying of animals for food should 
have no part in the Christian dispensation. 
There is no license given in the New Testa- 
ment for it that I can see. Some of the 
heathen converts in the history of the early 
church ate flesh on account of their depraved 
appetites. 

There have been certain stages of civiliza- 
tion when if the reins had been drawn too 



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tightly on those embracing the Christian 
faith, they would not have stood. But if 
new converts continue to walk in the light, 
the flesh, with the affections and lusts, 
will be crucified. In dealing with such 
persons, pastors and teachers should use di- 
vine wisdom. Light should not be brought 
to them faster than they are able to bear it. 
When Jesus saw how deficient His disciples 
were, He said, "I have many things . to say 
unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." 

Alan's lust for flesh, in all generations, has 
been the result of the curse, and still he contin- 
ues to slay and eat, but in this enlightened age 
there is no excuse for him. With six thou- 
sand years of bloodshed back of him, it is 
time for a change. 

If a person has a desire to serve God, and 
finds himself unable to control his appetites, 
he should go to Christ for help. He only 
is our great High Priest, having abolished 
the priesthood of men. Hebrews 4: 15- 
16 says, "For we have not an high priest 
which cannot be touched with the feeling of 
our infirmities; but was in all points tempted 
like as we are, yet without sin. Let us there- 
fore come boldly unto the throne of grace, 




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that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to 
help in time of need." 

When our Savior expired on the cross, the 
veil of the temple was rent in twain, thus show- 
ing that it was no longer necessary for priests 
chosen from among men to make intercession 
with the blood of animals for sins. The way 
was open for every lost child of Adam's race 
to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood 
of Christ. Man can get converted and sanc- 
tified, without priestly intercession. 

It is blessed to know that it is not neces- 
sary to resort to any ecclesiasticism for ab- 
solution from sin, as the Roman Catholic 
hierarchy would have you believe. When a 
person meets the conditions, God promises 
that his sins will be removed as far as the 
East is from the West and be remembered 
against him no more forever. The idea that 
apostolic succession is vested in a great ma- 
terial organization with priestly rites and cer- 
emonies, is the most absurd thing in the world. 

When Christ died, the Levitical Priest- 
hood was forever abolished, and He has en- 
dorsed no other since. He himself was made 
a High Priest forever after the order of Mel- 
chisedec, who was said to be without father 






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or mother, that is, his natural generation 
was not declared. There was no priestly 
succession or genealogy needed to make Mel- 
chisedec eligible to the priesthood. He was 
therefore a type of Christ and His spiritual 
posterity, i Peter 2 : 9 says, "But ye are a 
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an 
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should 
show forth the praises of him who hath called 
you out of darkness into his marvelous light." 
All that is necessary to be in the true 
Apostolic succession is to be sanctified wholly, 
spiritual pollution having been removed from 
the heart through the blood. This includes 
both actual and original sin. It takes the 
two works of grace, justification and sancti- 
fication, to admit one to the royal priesthood. 
Not a single Popish dogma is necessary to 
make a person eligible to it. Is it not time 
to do away with Romanism, with all of its 
heathen propagandas that have come down 
from the barbaric ages? 

If an infant should die without having 
been baptized by a priest, Romanists teach that 
it does not go to heaven, and parents are tor- 
tured the rest of their lives with the belief that 
their infants are in perdition, simply because 



64 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

they did not take them to the priest and pay 
him for putting a little water on their heads. 
The whole system is founded on fabrications, 
thus showing that the father of lies is its 
originator. 

People are taught that there is no way 
to get rid of their sins unless the priests make 
intercession for them. This is one of their 
many money-making schemes. If a person 
thinks he can commit any crime and by pay- 
ing a few dollars to the priest stand acquitted 
at the great tribunal, he will not hesitate to 
do most anything. He forgets that the 
Scriptures say that no drunkard can enter the 
kingdom of heaven and that no murderer 
hath eternal life abiding in him, and also that 
whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 

If a certain class of people can make peace 
with the parish priest, it is all they ask or de- 
sire. May God hasten the day when such a 
system can no longer bear the light of civ- 
ilization. 

If a person desires anything from the Lord, 
there is a way to obtain it. Matthew 7: 7- 
8 says, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, 
and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened 
unto you: For every one that asketh receiv- 



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eth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him 
that knocketh it shall be opened." Thus the 
reader will see that God has not left the hu- 
man race dependent upon the profligate priest- 
hood of the Romish Church or any other false 
religious system. 

James says, i: 14-15, "But every man is 
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own 
lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath con- 
ceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when 
it is finished, bringeth forth death." There is 
a way to overcome in time of temptation, — 
God's grace is sufficient. One may not only 
have power to control evil desires, but it is 
possible to get rid of them. 

When a person is born of the Spirit, his ac- 
tual transgressions are forgiven; when he is 
sanctified wholly, original sin is destroyed. 
Before the heart is freed from its awful weight 
of depravity, there is a continual warfare, 
which makes it difficult to be an overcomer. 
After a person is sanctified, this inward war- 
fare will cease. But so long as one is encum- 
bered with infirmities, he will be tempted. 

When the carnal nature is destroyed in 
the second work of grace, it is much easier 
to contend with the foe on the outside. The 

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duel on the inside of the heart having come 
to an end, one can better resis't outward temp- 
tations. 

It is the craving of the lower nature that 
causes the trouble, and it is God's plan for 
this nature to be crucified. 

Gal. 6:7-8 says, "Do not deceive yourselves. 
God is not to be scoffed at. For whatsoever 
a man sows, that he will also reap. He who 
sows in the field of his lower nature, will from 
that nature reap destruction; but he who 
sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit 
reap the Life of the Ages" (Weymouth). 

Adam and Eve plunged the whole human 
race into sin, bringing the curse upon both 
man and beast, for eating what they had 
been forbidden to eat. And to recover man 
from the depths to which he has fallen, it is 
necessary to discipline his appetite. If he is not 
willing to deny himself and take up his cross 
daily, he will become hopelessly wrecked for 
time and eternity. 

The world is full of apostate believers who 
have refused to heed the checks of the Spirit. 
They indulged their appetites when they 
should have curbed them, and thus grieved 
away the Spirit of God. 



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The greatest misfortune of such persons 
is that they do not realize their deplorable 
condition, and while making a profession, 
continue to give way to their fleshly appe- 
tites. The enemy has so deceived them 
as to make them think they are on the 
road to heaven, when the truth is they are on 
the broad road to destruction. 

After Samson laid his head in the lap 
of Delilah and was shorn of his locks, 
he went out and shook himself, but wist not 
that the Lord had departed from him. Be- 
fore he yielded to temptation and was shorn 
of his strength, the Spirit of the Lord came 
mightily upon him and he rent a lion 
as he would have rent a kid. He slew a 
thousand Philistines with the jaw-bone of 
an ass, and arose at midnight and carried the 
gates of Gaza, post, bar and all, to the top 
of the mountain. His enemies bound him 
with seven green withes, and he broke the 
withes as a thread of tow is broken when it 
touches the fire. 

He was the terror of evil doers, but strange 
as it may seem, when God left him, he did 
not know it. And it is true today of those 
who become the slaves of their lower nature. 



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When such persons are exhorted to repent, 
they usually show a spirit of self-vindication, 
and perhaps will never realize their true con- 
dition until they wake up beyond the reach 
of mercy. 

Jesus said, "If any man will come after 
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross 
daily, and follow me" (Luke 9:23). 






CHAPTER IV 

Israel Cried for Flesh in the Wilderness 

When the children of Israel crossed the 
Red Sea and no longer had access to the flesh- 
pots of Egypt, they murmured against Moses 
and Aaron, saying, "Would to God we had 
died by the hand of the Lord in the land of 
Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when 
we did eat bread to the full; for ye have 
brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill 
this whole assembly with hunger" (Ex. 16:3). 

While the Hebrew children occupied the 
land of Goshen, and were a separate and dis- 
tinct people, they had been in such close prox- 
imity to the Egyptians, in many respects 
they had become idolaters. Their appe- 
tites were depraved. This was especially 
true among the mixed multitude, and even 
though they were of the seed of Abraham 
they had been so corrupted by the Egyptians, 
it was very difficult to discipline them. Many 
of them had been so infatuated by the Egyptian 



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gods they had fallen down and worshiped 
them. 

They saw the mighty miracles that God 
performed in Egypt, when the kingdom was 
brought to desolation, and the firstborn of 
every household smitten. When Pharaoh's 
hosts pursued them to the banks of the Red 
Sea, they witnessed his utter defeat. The 
chariot wheels of the Egyptians dragged in 
the sand and this gave the waters time to part 
and Israel passed over dry-shod. After 
they had passed safely through the sea they 
sang a song of triumph on the bank of de- 
liverance. Their shackles were broken and 
they were free from the galling bondage in 
which they had suffered for so many years. 

Never had there been more stupendous 
miracles than those wrought in their be- 
half. God's power was so wonderfully 
manifested they seemed unable to compre- 
hend it, even after the sea had overthrown and 
engulfed their enemies. 

The lack of appreciation for what the Lord 
had done for them was due to their Egyptian 
appetites and fleshly propensities, and they had 
to be taken through a course of discipline. 
First, a destructive fire broke out among them, 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 7 1 

which is always a sign of God's great anger. 
Fire invariably points to the sins of the flesh. 
This was true of Sodom and Gomorrah when 
they were destroyed. The people of these 
cities had become so corrupt they tried to do 
violence to the angels who came to hasten Lot 
and his family out of the zone of destruction. 

The fire, burned in the outer circles of the 
camp of Israel and was not quenched un- 
til the people cried mightily to Moses, who 
made intercession for them. 

Following the fire the "mixt multitude * * 
fell a lusting: and the children of Israel al- 
so weptt again, and said, Who shall give us flesh 
to eat?" (Numbers 11:4). The cry for flesh 
spread like a contagion, and while it was with- 
held from them they were on the verge of 
killing Moses. The Lord heard their mur- 
murings and commanded Moses to speak to 
them, saying "At even ye shall eat flesh, and in 
the morning ye shall be filled with bread ; and 
ye shall know that I am the Lord your God." 

Manna had fallen from heaven like dew 
around the camp, and they gathered it and 
baked it in pans. It tasted like fresh oil. 
This bread was to supply every need of the 
human structure, but with their vitiated 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 73 

appetites the people were not satisfied 
with it. They wanted flesh as they had had it 
in Egypt. They said, "We remember the fish, 
which we did eat in Egypt freely" (Num. 

n:S>- 

For the gratification of the flesh, they 

were willing to set aside all that God had 
done for them, and go back into bondage. 
Multitudes today refuse to eliminate flesh 
from their menu, when they have every 
evidence that it is detrimental to their phys- 
ical, moral and spiritual welfare. But little 
progress in the advancement of the human 
race can be made until man ceases to prey upon 
carcases of dead animals. 

The Israelites preferred slavery rather 
'than to deny their appetites, and people are not 
far in advance of this today. Esau sold his 
birthright for a mess of red pottage (flesh 
and vegetables, undoubtedly), and there 
are multitudes today who are selling their 
souls for flesh and highly seasoned foods. 
How little estimate they put upon eternal life ! 
The Scriptures are so plain that the wayfaring 
man, though a fool, need not err therein, but 
when people do not want the truth, there is 
a way for them to evade it. The difficulty 



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will come at the day of reckoning, which is 
not far distant for the transgressor. Psalm 
55 :23 says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall 
not live out half their days." 

The cry of the people was so great that 
Moses heard every man weeping with his 
family at the door of his tent. Then the an- 
ger of the Lord was kindled, and Moses was 
in desperate straits. He felt that the burden 
of all the people lay upon his shoulders. And 
he said, "Whence should I have flesh to give 
unto all this people? for they weep unto me, 
saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. I 
am not able to bear all this people alone, be- 
cause it is too heavy for me" (Num.n : 13-14). 

Moses then begged that if he had found 
favor in the sight of God his life might be 
taken away, that he might not see his wretch- 
edness. It seems that Moses knew he would 
perish at the hands of those miserable flesh- 
ites if something was not done quickly, and 
God had to speedily undertake for him. 

It was not Moses' time to go. There 
were yet forty years before him as the lead- 
er of this people, who would no doubt have 
done violence to his person if their request 
had not been granted. The Lord told him 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 75 

to gather out seventy elders and officers among 
the people and bring them to the tabernacle, 
that they might stand with him, and said, "I 
will come down and talk with thee there: and 
I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, 
and will put it upon them; and they shall 
bear the burden of the people with thee, that 
thou bear it not thyself alone." 

Israel had murmured against Moses and 
against the Lord, and the Lord was going to 
show them that He was God, and that it was 
nothing for Him to feed that vast multitude 
with flesh if He desired to do so. He often 
grants petitions that are detrimental to those 
who ask, but it is one way that He has of get- 
ting glory to His name in making the wrath 
of man to praise Him. 

He commanded Moses to tell the people 
to sanctify themselves against the following 
day, and said, "Ye shall eat flesh : for ye have 
wept in 'the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall 
give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us 
in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you 
flesh, and ye shall eat." After their demands 
had reached such a crisis, He did not leave it 
optional with them as to how much or how 
long they should eat, but in giving them flesh 



j6 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

He determined to feed them to the full, and 
said, "Ye shall not eat one day, nor two 
days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twen- 
ty days ; But even a whole month, until it come 
out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto 
you: because that ye have despised the Lord 
which is among you, and have wept before 
him, saying, Why came we forth out of 
Egypt?" 

Those who plead for flesh must suffer the 
consequences. If they will forget His man- 
ifold mercies He will awaken them with His 
judgments. How prone is man to forget the 
pit from whence he was dug! How unstable 
is he! Well did the Psalmist say, "Exam- 
ine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my 
reins and my heart. * * * I have not sat 
with vain persons, neither will I go in with 
dissemblers. I have hated the congregation 
of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked." 
Fellowshiping evil doers brings calamity. 
Those who would walk and talk with Him must 
keep His precepts and be separate from the 
world. 

The Psalmist prayed that his soul might 
not be gathered with sinners, nor his life with 
bloody men. 



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There seems to. have been no one in that 
vast multitude that Moses led out of Egyp- 
tian bondage, to make a protest against those 
who cried for flesh. The murmurings and 
complaints of the mixed multitude prevailed 
and here lay the whole difficulty. There were 
people among them whose moral standard 
was very low, — those who had been corrupted 
by the Egyptians, — and when they murmured 
it spread throughout the camp. It is a fearful 
thing to associate with such people, — those 
who breed doubt and discontent. There is 
danger of imbibing the same spirit and like- 
wise having to share the punishment of such 
persons. 

No sooner was the flesh between the teeth 
of the Israelites than God was so angry 
with them He smote them with a grievous 
plague and many perished as a consequence. 
If the mixed multitude had not been thus sep- 
arated from those of truer blood, the whole 
company would have become incorrigible, and 
in mercy to those who were not so depraved, 
God had to destroy these persons from their 
midst. 

It was in the outer edges of the camp that 
the fire burned, showing that those who were 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 79 

on* the border were more especially the ones 
that lusted and likewise those who suffered 
the greater punishment. 

How true of professed Christians who 
live on the border ! They want to be counted 
among the followers of Christ, but are unwill- 
ing to give up the world. There is nothing 
more unsatisfactory than such a life. Here 
the Spirit lusts against the flesh and the flesh 
against the Spirit, and it will not be long after 
the strife begins, unless one is continually seek- 
ing to get rid of carnality, until he will be 
led back into captivity. The fight is always on 
the border. Here the fires of lust burn and 
destroy the life. 

Border warfare is usually characterized 
by treachery and deceit. People are never 
out of gunshot of the devil. His tempting baits 
are all along the way, and ere a person 
is aware he will find himself reaching out 
after those things that will destroy both soul 
and body. 

For professed Christians 'to sit down to a 
table loaded with highly-seasoned foods, in- 
cluding flesh, gives the enemy great advantage. 
There are not many who can resist temptation, 
where the appetites are involved. 



SO WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

During the 'thirty days that Israel was 
fed on quail, it seems that manna was 
withheld, and their punishment was almost 
greater than they could bear. One can imagine 
how loathsome it became. A strong wind blew 
the quails from the sea, and they fell round 
about the camp a day's journey in each direc- 
tion, two cubits high. There was no lack of 
flesh, and whereas they cried for it before, now 
they protested against it, for it stuck between 
their teeth and came out of their noses. 

I have been on ocean steamships when 
there were hundreds on board that could 
scarcely wait from one meal to another. They 
would eat the flesh of animals, fish and fowls, 
until I could no longer bear the sight and had to 
leave the table, to remain away during the rest 
of the voyage. The half-cannibal nature, as it 
devoured flesh and blood, was more than I 
could endure. 

Nearly all the people thought of was eat- 
ing. It was not unusual for them to eat five 
and six times a day, and then they would 
complain that they were not getting enough. 

Is it any wonder God's wrath has fallen 
upon the nations, and that war has reduced 
them to such extremities for food that an- 




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82 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

imals can no longer be fattened for the slaugh- 
ter for lack of grain? After centuries of en- 
lightenment, if people do not stop the slaugh- 
tering of animals to consume upon their lusts, 
God will force the issue. As truly as slavery 
had to go, and the liquor traffic is doomed, so 
will the murder of animals for the sustenance 
of man have to cease. 

Liquor has long dominated the nations and 
it has been proved that those who become 
addicted to its use have but little power over 
their own wills. The appetite leads the reason 
into captivity and holds men in bitter bondage, 
and so it is with those who have carnivorous 
appetites. Unable to exercise self-control 
they give way to the demon of lust and are held 
in his grip. Matt. 12:29 says, "Or else how 
can one enter into a strong man's house, and 
spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong 
man? and then he will spoil his house." The 
"strong man" has bound him hand and foot, 
and although he may struggle to get free, he is 
unable to break his fetters. Unless a stronger 
than he comes to his assistance, his doom is 
sealed. May God hasten the day when the ac- 
cursed traffic will be wiped off the face of the 
earth. 



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By the eating of flesh, man takes on the 
nature of a brute. He may deplore his con- 
dition and strive to be different, but he will 
find something deeply seated in him that is 
at times uncontrollable. For the cravings of 
the lower nature make a person much like a 
ravenous beast, and there is always danger, for' 
when once vent is given to passion, often 
crimes are committed that take the victim to 
the prison or the gallows. 

Flesh is fuel that feeds the flames of pas- 
sion, and the only way for the fires of lust to 
abate is to withhold the fuel. Lust must have 
something on which to feed, and the cry is for 
flesh, tobacco, whiskey, and so forth. One 
helps the other. A meat-eater is usually a 
tobacco-chewer, and the use of tobacco leads 
to that of strong drink. If people would eat 
that which God has commanded, the fires 
within, to a great extent, would subside, and 
do so with astonishing rapidity, and thus 
proof is furnished that the Almighty knew 
what is best when He gave the fruits of the 
ground for man's sustenance. 

The time has come when a standard must 
be lifted up for the people. Isaiah says, 
u Go through, go through the gates; prepare 




BINDING THE STRONG MAN 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 85 

ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the 
highway; gather out the stones; lift up a 
standard for the people" (62: 10). There is 
a growing sentiment among the most enlight- 
ened classes against the slaughtering of ani- 
mals for food, and the very thought is repul- 
sive. There is also great danger of being de- 
ceived by unscrupulous dealers. 

Conscience plays but little part in the com- 
mercialism of today. The public is at the mercy 
of those whose trickery and deception outweigh 
all rules of honesty and God-given principles. 
The buyer is at the mercy of the seller, and 
if he wishes to have peace of mind, he must 
take what is passed over the counter and ask 
no questions. He must have a different view 
of humanity than the Psalmist, who declared 
in his haste that, "All men are liars." 

God has given man his senses to be used. 
He sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels, and 
when he uses all of these, he will even then 
be unable to keep pace with those who make 
it their business to deceive the public for per- 
sonal aggrandizement. It is dangerous to 
trust any one who has not been proved. 
The lives of multitudes have been wrecked by 
misplaced confidence. It is impossible to live in 



86 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

this world without having to deal with those 
whose integrity is questionable. Otherwise, as 
Paul says, we would have to go out of the 
world. Therefore, it is necessary to be on the 
alert, lest we should become the victims of de- 
ceit and treachery. 

The devil has special designs on the fol- 
lowers of Christ, and he will work through 
his agencies to keep them from getting hold 
of the means that can be used in winning souls. 

With the illumination of the Spirit, and 
the written word, there is much in their 
favor, i Cor. 2: 15 says, "But he that is 
spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is 
judged of no man." The child of God does 
not look upon 'the outward appearance, nor 
judge men altogether by what they say. Matt. 
7:20 says, "By their fruits ye shall know 
them." 

The flesh of all kinds of animals is on sale 
in the markets. Do people know wha't they are 
buying or eating? There is scarcely a day that 
passes, but what men are arrested for selling 
diseased meat or the flesh of unclean animals. 
Cats, dogs and horses are prepared for the 
market, and people buy their flesh and im- 



ISRAEL CRIED FOR FLESH 87 

agine they are eating the best of beef and 
mutton. 

The cat industry is a prosperous business. 
When the old gray cat is ready for sale, she 
looks much like the Belgian hare and not 
one in a 'thousand would know the difference. 
In Japan, the meat of red dogs is a 
great delicacy, and dogs of other colors 
are preferred to beef, mutton or poultry. 

Horse beef was not eaten in France until 
after the great siege of 1871, now it is a legal 
article of commerce. People are deceiving 
their fellowmen in every department of com- 
mercial life, and they do not draw the line in 
,'the sale of animal flesh. 

It is said that the skunk is very toothsome ; 
also various kinds of lizards and reptiles, 
special mention being made of the rattle- 
snake. In many parts of the world the de- 
mand for snails cannot be supplied. The 
North American Indians eat muskrats, and 
the United States Department of Agriculture 
makes no discrimination between the flesh of 
the muskrat and that of the duck, its fellow- 
swimmer. 

To a large portion of the population of the 
United States there is no more delicious dish 



88 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

than the meat of the raccoon, the opossum and 
the ground-hog. The flesh of the bear is also 
considered very rare. 

All of these are counted in the list of un- 
clean animals in the Bible, but people continue 
to eat what God has forbidden, and then won- 
der why they are afflicted with diseases and 
cursed with the sins of the flesh. It is not 
so difficult to understand why the heathen 
eat such things, but what excuse can 
there be in so-called Christian lands. The 
eel, the oyster, the lobster, the clam, are con- 
sidered great delicacies by people in all parts 
of the civilized world. But they are unclean 
and unwholesome, and defile the human tem- 
ple. Regardless of the consequences, man 
continues to fling defiance in the face of the 
Almighty and pursue his self-chosen course, 
and does so at the peril of his life. 

In the Mosaic dispensation, to eat swine's 
flesh was an abomination, and the embargo has 
never been lifted from the hog. He was un- 
clean then, and is unclean now, and is doomed 
to extermination, with all of his loathsome 
germs of disease. 



CHAPTER V 
Daniel Refused the King's Meat 

Daniel and his three Hebrew friends in 
Babylonian captivity had to meet and settle 
the question of a fles'hless diet. The command 
had gone forth from the king to bring cer- 
tain of the Hebrew children, and of his own 
seed, and of the princes, to the palace, — 
"Children in whom was no blemish, but well 
favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cun- 
ning in knowledge, and understanding science, 
and such as had ability in them to stand in the 
king's palace, and whom they might teach 
the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans" 
(Daniel 1:4). 

Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 
were among those who were chosen. The 
prince of the eunuchs, under whose care they 
were placed, gave Daniel the name of Belte- 
shazzar, and the other three he called Sha- 
drach, Meshach and Abednego. 

When all of the persons had been brought 



DANIEL REFUSES THE KING S MEAT 9 1 

together whom the king wished to have 
trained for his service, he appointed them a 
daily portion of his own meat, and of the 
wine which he drank, intending that they 
should be nourished for three years, and at 
the end of that time that they should stand 
before him. 

The apportionment of food no doubt 
caused great concern among the children of 
the captivity, for if compelled to eat it, it 
would have been a departure from the Mosaic 
law and placed them on the same footing with 
the heathen. To refuse to obey the orders of 
the king was to endanger their lives, for if his 
displeasure was incurred, death was certain. 

Daniel counted the cost, and preferred 
death rather than to depart from the faith of 
his fathers. He purposed in his heart that 
he would not defile himself with the portion 
of the king's meat, nor with the wine which 
he drank. With this determination, he went 
forward prepared for any issue with which he 
might be confronted. 

He made a request of the prince of the 
eunuchs not to force the prescribed menu upon 
him, giving as his reason that he did not wish 
to defile himself. In this crucial test, there 



92 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

was a way made for his escape, for God had 
brought Daniel into favor and tender love 
with the prince of the eunuchs, and although 
the latter declared it would endanger his own 
head, he hearkened to his plea, and gave him 
only the food which he desired. 

With a desire for Daniel to know the full 
import of the king's request, the prince said, 
"For why should he (the king) see your faces 
worse liking than the children which are of 
your sort? then shall ye make me endanger 
my head to the king." 

"Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the 
prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, 
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy 
servants, I beseech thee, ten days ; and let them 
give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then 
let our countenances be looked upon before 
thee, and the countenance of the children 
that eat of the portion of the king's meat : and 
as thou seest, deal with thy servants." Dan- 
iel had triumphed and was ready for the test. 
In that crucial hour, he touched God, and re- 
ceived the assurance of His help and pro- 
tection. 

"At the end of ten days their countenan- 
ces appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all 



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the children which did eat the portion of the 
king's meat." The first scene of the drama 
had proved a success, and Melzar was now 
willing to take away the wine and the king's 
meat and give them pulse. The responsibil- 
ity rested wholly upon the shoulders of Dan- 
iel, who was well aware that the prince of the 
eunuchs and Melzar knew nothing of the God 
whom he worshipped. What they had done 
was solely upon the strength of Daniel's word 
and what they had seen after the ten days' 
test. 

If the Hebrew children could not prevail 
with God they knew that those who had the 
charge of them would not escape the wrath of 
the king. But knowing the power of the Al- 
mighty to deliver them, they had no fear. 

They were now to enter upon a three-years' 
course in which they were to subsist upon 
pulse and water alone. 

It would not have been fair to have asked 
the prince of the eunuchs to risk his life with- 
out giving him some assurance that it 
would not have to be forfeited for failure to 
carry out the king's orders. But the ten-days' 
test was sufficient to stimulate his faith in 



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Daniel's ultimate success and triumph, in re- 
fusing the king's meat. 

At the end of three years, the Hebrew chil- 
dren were brought before the king. They 
were found to be skilled in all knowledge, 
learning and wisdom. Daniel had under- 
standing in all visions and dreams. Among 
all those whom the prince of the eunuchs 
brought before the king, there was found none 
like Daniel and his friends; in all manner of 
wisdom and understanding, he found them 
ten times more efficient than all the wise men, 
magicians, soothsayers and sorcerers in the 
realm. 

These young men had lived wholly upon a 
vegetable diet, while the others had lived up- 
on all the delicacies of the king's table. 

One definition of pulse is, "The name of 
such seeds of leguminous plants as are used 
for human food, as peas, beans, and lentiles; 
abounds in vegetable casein and is highly 
nutritious." 

Three years of self-denial, in which he ate 
only pulse and drank water, fitted him for the 
great work to which God called him. The 
foundation of his character was laid, on 
which a structure was built that the storms 



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of ages have not been able to overthrow. 
There is no more illustrious character in Old 
Testament history than Daniel. He proved 
true in crucial tests where the faith of some 
of the most stalwart characters would have 
been shattered. 

There was never a charge brought against 
him, and never, in a single instance, did he be- 
tray the confidence that the Almighty had 
placed in him. Daniel was endued with wis- 
dom and knowledge superior to all others' in 
the kingdom. If he had given way to his 
appetite and eaten that which the king had 
prescribed, he would have lost the favor of 
God, which he so highly prized. More than 
once he was called to stand in the breach 
where the forfeiture of his life seemed 
inevitable, but his unwavering purpose of 
heart caused the Almighty to work miracles 
in his deliverance. 

The land was full of sorcery. The sooth- 
sayers and magicians were practicing their 
deceptive arts, filling the whole country with 
the virus of perdition, and God could no longer 
forbear. 

Nebuchadnezzar was one of the greatest 
and most profligate kings that ever sat upon a 



96 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

throne. His pride and presumption had pro- 
voked the wrath of God, and punishment 
could be no longer delayed. The course that 
the Almighty took to humble the great mon- 
arch, led to the vindication of Daniel as a wor- 
shiper of the only true and living God. The 
failure of the sorcerers to interpret the king's 
dream enraged him, "And the decree went 
forth that the wise men should be slain; and 
they sought Daniel and his fellows to be 
slain." Daniel asked why the decree was so 
hasty, and requested the king to give him time, 
with the promise that he would interpret the 
dream. 

Immediately following his interview with 
the king, he went to his house and made the 
thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Az- 
ariah, his companions, "That they would de- 
sire mercies of the God of heaven concern- 
ing this secret; that Daniel and his fellows 
should not perish with the rest of the wise 
men of Babylon"(Dan. 2: 18). 

The secret was revealed to Daniel in a 
night vision and he blessed the God of heaven, 
saying, "Blessed be 'the name of God for ever 
and ever: for wisdom and might are his." 
There was an occasion of great joy, when 



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these humble men of God had been saved from 
the penalty of death at the hands of an enraged 
monarch. No wonder he exclaimed, "He re- 
moveth kings, * * he giveth wisdom unto the 
wise, and knowledge to them that know un- 
derstanding : He revealeth the deep and secret 
things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, 
and the light dwelleth with him." 

Daniel and his three friends had passed 
through a similar test when the king had ap- 
pointed a portion of his own meat and drink 
for them. They had faced death and con- 
quered, and once more they were about 
to be delivered up, and again they tri- 
umphed, and Daniel thanked the God of 
heaven for giving him wisdom and might and 
granting their request by making known the 
king's matter. 

Daniel rehearsed the vision before the king 
and gave him the interpretation. Then the 
king answered and said, "Of a truth it is, that 
your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of 
kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou 
couldest reveal this secret." 

God has always had a people to whom He 
could speak, and in the crucial hour they have 
come forth to make manifest His power and 

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wisdom. There are those today to whom He 
reveals His secrets, but such persons are 
in the humble walks of life, unheard and 
unrecognized by the popular ministry or the 
powers of the world. But God is able to make 
their works manifest and will do so when His 
time has come. 

The young Hebrew, whose religion brought 
him under great reproach, was eventually made 
ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and 
the chief of the governors over all the wise 
men. At his request, Shadrach, Meshach and 
Abednego, were placed over the affairs of the 
province, while he sat in the king's gate, a 
far more important position than that of his 
friends. 

Was there ever a more thrilling story than 
that of Daniel in captivity? Those who 
appreciate the deep things of God never 
tire of his adventures among a strange and 
idolatrous people, where his life was con- 
stantly in peril. Never in a single instance 
were his foes permitted to triumph, and in 
each ordeal through which he passed his char- 
acter shone with greater brilliancy. 

Daniel proved to his own people and to the 
generations to come that it is possible to keep 



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one's garments unspotted from the world un- 
der all conditions and circumstances. He had 
something that made him more than con- 
queror. 

The secret of his success lies in the fact 
that he took the route of self-denial. He 
refused every opportunity that was offered 
him to gratify his fleshly appetites. He could 
not get the consent of his mind to forsake the 
God of his fathers and drop to the level of his 
surroundings, and in his struggle to keep the 
smile of the Almighty upon his soul, he won 
the admiration even of his enemies. They 
knew not the law, neither the God whom he 
worshiped, and were therefore unable to com- 
prehend the principles for which he stood. 

There are those today who are looked upon 
as having weird and fanciful ideas, because 
they refuse to follow the traditions of men. 
Rom. 12 :2 says, "And be not conformed to this 
world : but be ye transformed by the renewing 
of your mind, that ye may prove what is that 
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." 
Until a person is willing to face opposition and 
die to the opinions of men, it will be impossible 
for him to prove the perfect will of God. 

In all the great religious and reform move- 



IOO WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

ments, there have been those who were not 
only willing to undergo criticism, but have 
laid their lives down in order that the truth 
might be established. And after their work 
was finished, their names were heralded as the 
world's greatest benefactors. 

The slaughter of animals for the suste- 
nance of man is a part of the curse that should 
have passed away centuries ago, but God has 
had to wait till the 20th century to find those 
who are willing to deny. themselves and put up 
the standard against this barbaric custom. 

Daniel and his three friends were the mas- 
ters of their own appetites and God honored 
them by giving them control of the whole 
Babylonian realm. Prov. 16:32 says, He that 
ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh 
a city. Condemnation is written on the escutch- 
eon of those who live beneath the standard 
they preach to others. The reason that mul- 
titudes in the old denominations sanction the 
consumption of animal flesh, is because they 
are unwilling to curb their own appetites. 
Unless people have the moral courage to do 
this, they can have no influence over others. 
May God hasten the day when those who claim 
to be civilized will feel the weight of their re- 



DANIEL REFUSED THE KING S MEAT IOI 

sponsibility, and do all in their power to make 
the world what it should be. 

When wicked men plotted against Daniel 
and cast him into the lions' den, they expected 
him 'to be instantly devoured by the wild beasts, 
but to their great disappointment, he was not 
harmed. Daniel had slain the lion of his soul 
and his appetite was under complete subjec- 
tion, and God did not permit the wild beasts 
'to touch him. He had his case in hand, as He 
has that of every individual from whose heart 
depravity has been removed. 

When the king approached the lions' den 
he cried, u O Daniel, servant of the living God, 
is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able 
to deliver thee from the lions?" (Dan. 6:20). 

The answer was, "My God hath sent his 
angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that 
they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before 
him innocency was found in me; and also be- 
fore thee, O king, have I done no hurt." 

Daniel's deliverance had depended wholly 
upon his innocency,. — he had done no hurt to 
man or beast, and neither was able to harm 
him. Such is the protection that God gives 
one who serves Him, according to His word. 

When man was given permission to eat 




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DANIEL REFUSED THE KING S MEAT IO3 

flesh, as before stated (Gen. 9:5), God warned 
him that his blood would be required at the 
hand of animals, and so it has proved, — while 
man preys upon the brute creation, his life also 
is in peril. In sparsely settled regions, wild 
beasts are often a terror to the inhabitants, and 
'their presence in the surrounding woods often 
makes it impossible to clear and till the soil. 
Half of the world scarcely knows what the 
other half has to contend with. In countries 
where wild beasts roam in search of prey, the 
lives of people are in constant danger. 

If there is within one a craving for 
animal flesh, there is yet a grea't transforma- 
tion to be wrought. After this change has 
taken place the sight of flesh is loathsome and 
the disposition to slay dumb creatures to con- 
sume upon one's lusts will forever pass away. 

It is the lion of depravity in the human 
heart that breeds all kinds of evil, and while 
this nature exists men will slay one another. 

After Daniel was taken up out of 
the den of lions, the king called for those 
men who had plotted against his life, 
and commanded that they with their wives 
and children should be thrown into the 



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den, and immediately the wild beasts sprang 
upon them and devoured them. 

In the third year of the reign of Cyrus, 
Daniel began to chasten himself. For three 
whole weeks he "ate no pleasant bread, neither 
came flesh nor wine" into his mouth. Every 
true Hebrew had to partake of the sacrificial 
offerings, but Daniel was not where such of- 
ferings could be made, and in abstaining from 
flesh and wine, God honored him by revealing 
the future to him as he did to no other 
person except John the Revelator. 

During the three weeks that he waited 
upon the Lord, he was shown things 
which would take place at the end of 
the age and which have been recorded for our 
instruction. While waiting beside the great 
river Hiddekel, he had a vision of the Lord Je- 
hovah. The description which he gives of 
Him corresponds with that of St. John in Rev- 
elation i. He was clothed with linen, His loins 
girded with find gold, His body like beryl, and 
His face as the appearance of lightning. His 
eyes were as lamps of fire, and His arms and 
His feet in color like unto polished brass. The 
voice of His words was like the voice of a 
multitude. 



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Those who stood by Daniel saw not the 
vision, but a great quaking fell upon them so 
that they fled to hide themselves and he was 
left alone, with no strength remaining in him. 

While lying with his face toward the 
ground, he was touched by a hand that caused 
him to kneel with the palms of his hands on 
the ground. Then came the wonderful mes- 
sage, "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, un- 
derstand the words that I speak unto thee, 
and stand upright: for unto thee am I now 
sent. And when he had spoken this word 
unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto 
me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day 
that thou didst set thine heart to understand, 
and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy 
words were heard, and I am come for thy 
words/' 

There must have been great significance 
in such chastening. Daniel was in a condi- 
tion to understand, after his course of self- 
denial, and he was told the things that 
would take place in the latter days. Twice 
he was touched and strengthened by One who 
had the appearance of a man, and twice was 
it said that he was greatly beloved. 

Daniel 10: 21 says, "I will shew thee that 



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which is noted in the scripture of truth : and 
there is none that holdeth with me in these 
things, but Michael your prince." 

Michael was one of the trinity of archan- 
gels, and Daniel was told that Michael was his 
prince, and it seems that secrets were confided 
to Daniel that none knew except Michael and 
Jehovah himself. Such was his reward. 



PART SECOND 



CHAPTER VI 
How the Lord Spoke to Me 

Shortly after I was sanctified, I heard of 
"Sammy" Morris, a colored youth who had 
been converted in a mission in Africa and 
worked his way on a steamship to the United 
States to learn more about the Holy Spirit. 
When I heard of his thirst after righteousness, 
my soul cried out for greater depths of God's 
love. After a siege of fasting and prayer, I de- 
termined to eat less meat, having been con- 
vinced that the eating of flesh was detrimental 
to spiritual growth. Revivals continued to 
spread over the country as the result of my 
labors in school houses, halls and churches, 
until it became a great problem what to do 
with the converts. 

Evangelists, holiness professors and others, 
came and went, and I found but two persons 
among them who had convictions against eat- 
ing flesh of any kind. Rev. W. B. Godbey, the 
preacher under whom I was converted, was 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME IO9 

one of them. I noticed that he ate neither fish, 
flesh nor fowls, giving as his reason for not 
doing so that his system was too delicately 
constructed to digest and assimilate these 
things. I felt sure that he had another reason 
in addition to this, which he was withholding 
until the people could receive it. 

I was very fond of ham and sausage, but 
my husband would not eat pork, — not that 
he objected to it on Scriptural grounds, but 
wholly from a hygienic point of view. He ar- 
gued that swine's flesh is unclean, that it breeds 
disease, and is therefore unfit to be taken into 
the human system. 

While I knew that much had been said 
and written about hog cholera, and trichina in 
pork, yet I was unwilling to wholly dispense 
with pork, unless I knew it was displeas- 
ing to the Lord to eat it. I had such an 
appetite for it, that argument purely from the 
standpoint of health, was not sufficient to 
induce me to give it up. 

It is as difficult for some people to give up 
meat, where their appetites have become de- 
praved through long use of it, as it is for others 
to give up the use of tobacco or strong drink. 
In my case all that was necessary was to know 



IIO WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

that it was the Lord's will for me to put it 
aside, and I was willing to undergo any pri- 
vation. 

As the work continued to develop, our 
home became the headquarters for the new 
converts and missionaries, and soon we had 
to move into larger quarters. The pork 
question was often discussed, some arguing 
in favor of it and others against it, but no one 
was willing to set the example by abstaining 
from it altogether, and I continued to pray 
that the controversy might be brought to an 
end. And it was not long until my prayer was 
answered. 

After having had no pork in the house for 
about two weeks, I wanted some striped 
bacon and felt that I could not eat if I did 
not get it. It was brought and I had some 
of it cooked, but no one ate any of it but 
myself. 

Two or three days later an evangelist from 
Kentucky visited our home. Some of this ba- 
con was placed on the table, but he ate none 
of it. When potatoes were served, he asked 
very courteously if they had been fried in 
pork grease. I replied, The Scriptures say, 
"Whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME III 

no questions for conscience' sake." 

He was greatly embarrassed and apol- 
ogized, making the excuse that pork was very 
injurious to his health. 

For days I could not get the pork 
question off my mind, and in the meantime 
Rev. W. B. Godbey, visited our city and 
was entertained at our home. During his 
stay, pork was served, but he ate none of it. 
This put me under still greater conviction. I 
said in my heart, I am tired of being harassed 
by this thing, and it must be settled. I de- 
termined to hear from heaven, and the Lord 
heard and answered prayer. 

In a vision I saw a piece of bacon 
on a shelf in the pantry. I reached my hand 
through a little opening in the wall to get it, 
but lost my hold and it fell on the floor. I 
went to pick it up, and when I got there, it was 
going through the wall. I reached after it 
again, but it slipped away into the yard. 

Rushing out at a back door, I saw the 
bacon in a little stream going through the 
yard toward the fence. All the time, I was 
reaching after it, and the stream was growing 
deeper and darker. It passed through the 




THE LORD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE IT 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME H3 

fence into the alley, and I opened the gate and 
continued in pursuit. But the stream by this 
time was getting so deep and wide that I was 
in danger of losing my footing and falling 
into it. 

After making one more frantic effort to 
reach the meat, and failing, I heard a voice 
say, "The Lord does not want you to have 
it." This was repeated, "The Lord does not 
want you to have it." Suddenly I awakened 
and all was clear. He had at last spoken. 

For weeks I ate no pork, but in the mean- 
time the enemy made a desperate effort to 
keep me from putting up a standard in our 
home against it, on the ground that it would 
put others in bondage. Much depended upon 
me in the ministry of God's word, and I was 
afraid of going too far. The Lord knew the 
desire of my heart to please Him and let 
something more happen to help settle the 
question. 

Accompanied by my husband, sons, and 
other Christian workers, I went to Cheyenne, 
Wyoming, to conduct evangelistic services. 
The meetings were held in a large Gospel 
tent. We rented a flat, where we could 
live and do our own cooking. One afternoon 

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my husband brought in a part of a ham. He 
made the statement, good-naturedly, in the 
presence of others, that he had brought it 
especially for me, that I was very fond of 
pork, etc. 

When dinner was served, I took a small 
piece on my plate and had taken a few mouth- 
fuls, when I thought of my dream, and told 
it for the benefit of those who had not heard it. 
A young man in the company listened at- 
tentively, and grew, serious. When the story 
was finished, he said, "If I had had such a 
dream as that, I would not eat pork again." 
This went to my heart like an arrow, and I 
could eat no more, and left the table. 

When I reached my room I dropped on 
my knees, and asked the Lord to let the meat 
make me ill for three days if the young man's 
message was from Him. I wanted to be 
chastened so that I would never forget it. 
And He took me at my word. For three days 
I was unable to attend services. The ham 
seemed to have lodged in my throat, and it is 
impossible 'to explain how I felt. During that 
time I had no appetite for anything. 

No one else felt any ill effects from eating 
the meat, and this made it still more convincing 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME IIS 

that the Lord was especially dealing with me 
in regard to the matter. The lesson proved 
effectual, and never from that day to this have 
I tasted swine's flesh. 

After returning home, contrary to my 
wishes, food was often cooked in pork grease, 
but it was almost useless to make a protest, as 
those who did the cooking argued that they 
could not get along without it. But the Lord 
rebuked them when they persisted in having 
their way. On one occasion, I became se- 
riously ill from eating something that was 
fried in lard. 

It was not a question now of myself alone, 
— the standard had to be put up for the benefit 
of others. 

Soon a large building was rented for 
a Missionary Training School, and our own 
home was given up. We took all of 
our household furniture and moved into 
this building, and opened the School with con- 
verts from our own work. But with some the 
question of easing swine's flesh was not settled. 
The person appointed as matron for the Train- 
ing School argued that those who wanted pork 
should have it, and that there was no Scriptural 
grounds for preventing them from eating it. 



Il6 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

There was a division among the students, 
and the result was, some who contended for 
it dropped out of the work. But this did not 
end the difficulty. When new students and 
missionaries came, the fight to keep the stand- 
ard up, had to be made over, and with my 
husband, who did not eat it himself, con- 
tending that they should have it if they wanted 
it, I had more on my hands than I could well 
manage. I never dreamed of having such a 
battle and had but little conception of the ex- 
tremes to which people will go in order to 
gratify their Egyptian appetites. 

On a certain day there was an argument in 
the hall. I listened to hear what the conten- 
tion was about, and found that two sisters 
were talking on the subject with a young man 
who worked in the office. One of the young 
women, who argued in favor of pork, I found 
had not eaten it for years. And when she 
was asked to explain, she said the physicians 
had forbidden her to eat it, because she had 
a blood disease, which they said, was the 
result of eating pork. I said, 'Then why 
are you in favor of it?" Slhe said that 
others should have it if they wanted it. 
She had a large scar on her neck, where 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME II7 

there was once a running sore, caused by eat- 
ing pork. I had often noticed it, but supposed 
she had been burned. Her sister was fond of 
pork and she was pleading in her behalf. 
Later this sister had a cancer on her breast, 
which nearly caused her death. 

The matron of the School, assisted by oth- 
ers, smuggled in bacon and ham. But the 
Lord revealed to me what they were doing in 
a way that amazed them. The meat was found 
where they had hidden it. A young man who 
was studying for the ministry had not only 
helped to keep the fact that it was being 
brought into the house, a secret, but had told 
falsehoods about it; with bitter tears he re- 
pented, lamenting the fact that he had ever 
taken any part in the affair. 

While the question was still being discussed, 
I went to Nebraska, accompanied by a young 
woman who had assisted me in meetings. 
During the absence of six weeks, we spent two 
weeks in South Omaha, where there is located 
one of the greatest live stock markets in the 
United States. While conducting services in 
the city, we were repeatedly invited by friends 
to visit the slaughter houses. Personally, I 
had no desire to go, but my friend insisted. 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME II9 

Some one kindly offered us a horse and car- 
riage, and sent a young woman as an escort. 

On reaching the stock-yards, we alighted 
from the carriage, and the two young women 
preceded me to the place where the hogs were 
being killed. When within fifty yards of the 
building, a switch engine separated me from 
them, and as soon as the engine had passed, 
I heard hogs squealing, and it so shocked 
me tha't I became dizzy. A policeman 
standing near by offered assistance, but I told 
him I thought I would be all right in a few 
moments. But by this time my friends 
were ascending a flight of steps on the out- 
side of the building in which the hogs were 
being slaughtered. The officer asked me if 
they had come with me. He marveled that 
they were not in the least intimidated by the 
sickening odor and the squealing of the hogs. 

In the building were large tanks of 
boiling water. The hogs were stuck and im- 
mediately thrown into this water. They would 
squeal and flounder for a moment and die. The 
officer told me just what I would see, and said, 
"If you can climb up those steps and look in, 
you will be braver than I am or most other 
people/' I knew it was my last opportunity, 



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and feeling that it might help me in the fight 
I was making against the eating of pork, I 
concluded to undertake it. 

By the time I reached the top of the long 
flight of steps, I was so ill I feared that I 
would never reach the bottom again in 
safety. But the officer kept his eye on 
me and told me afterwards that he thought 
perhaps he would have to come to my assist- 
ance. I had. one glimpse of the hogs and 
could bear no more. I saw them stuck with 
a knife and pitched into the boiling water, and 
the sight will remain with me as long as I live. 
Still dizzy and staggering, I was conducted 
to the place where the cattle were killed, and 
without going into details, will say that the 
sight of the blood that was flowing in streams, 
nearly caused me to faint. The smell of all 
that fresh blood was exceedingly obnoxious. 
• The first victim that I saw was an 
innocent looking cow led in by a halter. A 
person standing near with an iron mailed in 
his hand gave her a death blow in the forehead. 
She fell down on her knees, and lay jerking 
and quivering; then she was stuck with a 
knife, and her blood helped to augment the 
stream that was already flowing. This blood 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME 121 

was not wasted, but was saved, perhaps, for 
different kinds of food extracts. 

We followed her through the various 
changes until she was hanging in the cooler. 
This took about twenty or thirty minutes 
from the time she was given the death blow 
with the iron mallet. I had now seen enough, 
and was ready to go. My friends and others 
insisted on my going to where the sheep were 
being slaughtered, but no amount of persua- 
sion could have gotten my consent. 

After reaching my room, I was so burdened 
over the cruelty I had seen, that I felt I 
could never eat any more meat. The fumes 
of the slaughter houses seemed to con- 
tinue in my nostrils for days. I tried in every 
way to forget what I had seen and to get rid of 
the odor, but it was impossible to do so while 
I remained in the city. 

In the meantime, I ate potatoes, which I 
afterward found had been fried in pork grease. 
My stomach became so unsettled that I was 
unable to attend services for two days, and 
concluding that my work was finished in the 
place, I closed the meetings and left for home, 
determined to wage a more vigorous warfare 
against eating meat than ever before. 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME 123 

After taking a firm stand, the battle against 
pork came to an end. There was no more 
discussion on the subject; everyone seemed 
to know that the question was settled once and 
for all in the School.. 

Our matron continued with us for a time, 
but her Egyptian appetite gave me no little 
trouble. On the day before Thanksgiving, 
she was very much concerned about turkeys 
for 'the dinner, and came to my room 
almost in tears. The time had come to make 
some preparation, but there was no meat or 
fowls in the house, and no money to buy any. 
The matron said she had eighty cents, which 
she wanted to use to help buy a turkey, if she 
could get more money to put with it. I assured 
her that I could not assist her, and when she 
found that she would not be able to get even 
one turkey, she was greatly disappointed. 
I told her the Lord could supply turkeys for 
dinner if He chose to do so, that it was not 
too late yet. But as she left the room, I could 
see that she was troubled with doubts. 

I listened to her steps until she reached 
the kitchen, and at the same instant the door- 
bell rang. I went to the railing of the stair- 
way and called to her, without knowing any- 



124 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

thing about who was at the door. I 
said, "Your turkeys are at the door." By the 
time she reached the hall, some one was ad- 
mitting an expressman, with two very large 
turkeys. They had come from a farm fifty 
miles north of Denver. 

It is needless to say that the at- 
mosphere of the place took on a new 
coloring. And before ten o'clock* that night, 
there had been seven turkeys, two geese, 
a duck and some chickens, sent to the School. 
God gave us flesh as He did the children of 
Israel in the desert, and He did so under sim- 
ilar conditions. Our people cried for flesh and 
He fed them to the full. 

Ray White, who was then seven years 
old, was so enthusiastic over the abundant 
supply of fowls for Thanksgiving, he told it 
everywhere he went and to every one that 
came to the house. In the midst of a conver- 
sation, he would break in, and say, "The Lord 
sent us seven turkeys, two gooses, a duck and 
some chickens." . We believe the fowls were 
sent in answer to prayer, in order to strengthen 
the faith of those who had asked. 

This was the first and last time that fowls 



HOW THE LORD SPOKE TO ME 125 

of any kind were sent to the School as a gift 
from friends or others on holiday occasions. 
Other gifts were often received, but flesh was 
overlooked by those who wished to help the 
work. 

God had a purpose in this. He had shown 
us what He could do in supplying these things, 
and later withheld them, after our people had 
become more enlightened. 



CHAPTER VII 
Flesh Gradually Eliminated 

After our building was erected in Denver, 
it rilled up rapidly with students and mission- 
aries. The work was conducted entirely by 
faith. Merchants gladly gave us reduced 
prices on everything that we bought; good 
beef and mutton were furnished us for only 
a few cents a pound. While the building 
was under construction, many thousands of 
dollars were donated without solicitation. It 
was the faith feature of the work that 
attracted wide attention. Food supplies came 
in from all quarters, consisting of fruits, veg- 
etables, and hundreds of sacks of potatoes. 

There was scarcely any meat ever donated, 
but it was served once, at least, every day. 
There were a number of persons in the School 
who suffered from various physical ailments, 
caused by eating meat, but it was more difficult 
to get them to restrain their appetites than 
others. 



FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED \2J 

In 1908, when enlargement was absolutely 
necessary, we moved the main body of the 
School to our present headquarters in New 
Jersey. The markets in the nearby towns and 
cities were unable to supply us with meat, and 
the meat question became one of the most 
difficult problems we had to handle. 

After Missionary Headquarters were 
opened in Brooklyn, we arranged to have meat 
and fish shipped from the New York markets, 
but this proved to be very unsatisfactory, and 
had to be abandoned. In the meantime, our peo- 
ple were becoming more and more convinced 
that they should live on a fleshless diet. Our 
greatest difficulty was with some of the chil- 
dren in the School, whose parents had the 
idea that they could not get along without 
meat. 

The barrels of fish that were shipped from 
New York became burdensome, and the wish 
was often expressed that no more would be 
brought to the place. The process of the grad- 
ual elimination of flesh from our diet covered 
a period of about six years. 

During this time, much was being said 
about diseased cattle, and government inspect- 
ors killed some on nearby farms. I heard 



FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED 1 29 

more about diseased cattle within a few years 
than I had in all my life before, and the sight 
of meat was repulsive. I scarcely ever ate 
any, and when I did I would have been much 
better off without it. I ate alone in my room, 
usually refusing meat and fish of any kind. 

During the past five years, much of my 
time has been spent in London. In certain 
localities of this great city, there are all kinds 
of fish and meat markets. Birds and animals 
of every description are displayed, and hares 
are especially conspicuous. The odor from 
these masses of decaying flesh is so sicken- 
ing I avoid passing them if possible. 

It is a common occurrence in London to 
see great herds of sheep ready for the slaugh- 
ter driven through the streets with red chalk 
marks on their backs. Their continual bleat- 
ing is a plea for mercy, but man with his 
cannibal proclivities fails to heed their cry, 
and the poor, dumb creatures have to bear their 
part of the curse by suffering death at the 
hands of so-called Christians, that their flesh 
may be consumed upon their lusts. 

Naturally I have often found myself trying 
to discover the distinguishing traits between 
man and the brute creation. As I would think 

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FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED I3I 

of his cruelty and of his fleshly propensities, 
my heart would have failed me in the work 
God had called me to do, had it not been for 
the comfort the Holy Spirit gave me. 

Preachers in modern pulpits no longer 
preach that man should restrain his appetites 
and passions, and people will have to be 
awakened by the thunderbolts of God's wrath. 
His judgments are now upon the earth. The 
multitudes are engrossed with the world. 
Isaiah says, "For the heart of this people 
is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of 
hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest 
they should see with their eyes, and hear with 
their ears, and understand with their heart, 
and should be converted, and I should heal 
them" (Acts 28: 27). 

Another and better translation is,"Go to this 
people and tell them, You will hear, and hear, 
and by no means understand ; and will look and 
look, and by no means see. For this people's 
mind has grown callous, their hearing has be- 
come dull, and their eyes they have closed; to 
prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or 
hearing with their ears, or understanding with 
their minds, and turning back, so that I might 
cure them." 



L32 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

All through the old dispensation, God was 
troubled with people of this character. When 
prophets were sent among them, they were 
stoned, and no matter how often the Israelites 
were recovered from idolatrous worship, they 
would revert to it again, and continue in it 
until God's wrath burned against them, and 
punishment was administered. When Korah 
and his company rebelled, the earth opened 
and swallowed up thousands of these fleshites, 
and at other times, they were destroyed by 
pestilence and famine and in various other 
ways. 

Time and again, the Almighty undertook 
to discipline Israel, but many persisted in 
their self-chosen course until His wrath 
burned against them. 

The Lenten season is the only time when 
the members of some of the churches put any 
restraint upon their appetites. There are 
certain days on Which some of them will 
abstain from eating meat, and this is simply 
because it is customary to do so, and not from 
any real heart conviction. If there is any 
law of God that forbids the eating of meat 
during Lent, it is wrong to eat it at any time. 

Times and seasons have nothing to do with 



FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED 1 33 

vital Christianity, and no person of apostolic 
faith will put any stress upon them. The 
observance of days and certain seasons is sim- 
ply a trick of the enemy to ease the consciences 
of those who afterward go into deeper depths 
of self-indulgence. 

I once heard a parish priest give his people 
instructions as to what days they could eat 
meat. After he had finished a forty-five 
minutes' address, I wondered if he had made 
the people understand what he wished them 
to do. He emphasized the fact that those who 
did manual labor could eat it every day but 
Good Friday. 

Where did this meat controversy begin? 
Romanists claim Apostolic succession, and 
nothing could be more erroneous or mislead- 
ing. Undoubtedly it was handed down to the 
fallen Apostolic Church, and some things the 
latter teaches may have been founded on 
Scriptural truth, but there is but little resem- 
blance now to what was once embodied in the 
doctrines of the true Church. The fact is, the 
prohibition of meat started with the Apostolic 
Church, and the perversion of it is seen to- 
day in Roman Catholicism. 

Loyal Romanists do not eat meat on Fri- 



134 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

day, but they will eat fish, which is a verte- 
brate animal. Why should they make this 
distinction? 

In October, 19 13, I visited our work in 
Denver, and found that meat, with the ex- 
ception of pork, was eaten in the School as 
it was in the early history of our Institution. 
Previous to this our people had made a dif- 
ference between fried and boiled meats, the 
fried being much more unwholesome than 
that which was boiled, and for this and other 
reasons, it was no longer eaten at our Head- 
quarters. 

The story of Eli's sons threw light upon 
the subject. It was customary for the priests 
to eat that which was taken out of the 
pot with a fleshhook, but Eli's sons re- 
fused to eat their portion. They wanted 
the very best, and 'the privilege of cook- 
ing it themselves. They had become prof- 
ligate, and would not do according to the 
law. They declared that if the meat they de- 
sired were not furnished them, they would 
take it by force. "Wherefore the sin of the 
young men was very great before the Lord" 
(1 Sam. 2: 17). These sons of Eli had cor- 
rupted women before the very door of the 




PRIESTS TAKING OUT MEAT WITH A FLESHHOOK 



I36 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

tabernacle and God's wrath burned against 
them. The indulgence of carnivorous appetites 
usually leads to the grosser sins of the flesh. 

At Denver our people were eating steak, 
and insisted on my eating it, too. I wondered 
if the Lord was trying to show me that I 
should never eat any more meat. I found 
this was just what He was trying to do, and I 
marveled at His bearing with me so long. 

There were two new missionary students, 
young women, in the School, who had taken 
the kitchen work upon themselves for a time. 
They were exceedingly anxious to do their 
work so that it would be acceptable. One 
afternoon, when they had prepared the even- 
ing meal, the bell rang, but my brother and his 
wife, who were moving into other rooms in 
the building did not come. They were in the 
midst of 'the work, and did not wish to stop 
until they had finished it, and the young women 
were greatly disappointed. Later they were 
sent for, but did not come. 

I was unable to get them off my mind 
and regretted that they had not come, for the 
example to others and for the encouragement 
of those who had prepared the meal. 

My mother, whom we had moved a few 



FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED 1 37 

days before within a half block of the Bible 
School, was having some difficulty with the 
electric lights in her house, and at six o'clock 
I went over to see if they were working satis- 
factorily. Here I found my brother and his 
wife sitting at the table alone, eating steak 
that they had bought on the way over. My 
heart became so heavy I could scarcely speak, 
and I soon left the house. 

My mother is not a friend to our Institu- 
tion. Many times she passes our door go- 
ing to other places of worship. She has at- 
tended only one of our services in years, and 
this was when she could not resist 'the plea 
of an unconverted son. 

There have been times when she seemed to 
be softening up a little, but it was not lasting, 
and later, she was more estranged than ever. 
Her connection with the old Holiness Associa- 
tion that so bitterly opposed us, made it far 
worse. She took pleasure in having those 
around her who were antagonistic to our work. 

I reached my room feeling that my work 
in the city was finished for the time and that 
it was useless to say anything more until 
some others were willing to take an uncom- 



I38 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

promising stand on all questions of such vital 
importance to the Church. 

I decided not to go to the class room the 
next morning, but one of the sisters insisted, 
and I went, but had no intention of saying 
anything. My brother, who was present, asked 
me to take 'the class. My reply was, I have 
nothing to say, unless it is against eating meat, 
and without intending to do so, I said, I am 
grieved over what you did yesterday evening. 

He said, "You should speak to me pri- 
vately about that," but the words had been 
forced from my lips even while I was trying 
to hold them back. I told the School what 
had occurred, and how I felt about it. My 
brother replied, "You eat steak yourself," then 
added, "but perhaps it is necessary for you to 
do so on account of your health." 

I saw that he was hiding behind me, and 
I tried to make an excuse, but it was no use. 
The crucial moment had come and I would 
have to put it away forever. 

Instantly the scripture flashed upon my 
mind, "If meat make my brother to offend, 
I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." 
I said, Lord, if thou art speaking to my soul, 
let me thrust my finger into the Bible and put 



FLESH GRADUALLY ELIMINATED 139 

it upon this passage. I did so, and on open- 
ing the Book, I found my finger on i Cor. 8: 
13: u Wherefore, if meat make my brother to 
offend, I will eat no flesh while the world 
standeth, lest I make my brother to 3 offend." 

This was sufficient. I saw that I had been, 
in part at least, the cause of my brother's of- 
fense, and the fight, so far as I was personally 
concerned, was forever ended. When I told the 
class the scripture that had been given me, 
the heavens were opened above my soul. God 
had put my brother in the breach, and given 
me 'this scripture so as to leave no doubt as 
to the standard that He wished to be put up in 
our Institution against the eating of flesh. 

Never since the Lord had sanctified me had 
I hesitated to make any sacrifice, if I knew that 
He required it, and no amount of persuasion 
could have changed me now. God had spoken, 
and it would be perilous not to heed His voice. 
I could at last understand wha't He had been 
trying to work out through all the years of 
experience that I had had in the Institution 
with regard to meat. I knew that I would 
have 'to obey, and the truth would be estab- 
lished sooner or later, however slow people 
might be to receive it. 



CHAPTER VIII 
Putting up the Standard 

On Thursday, October 28th, four days 
later, I left for the Atlantic Coast, knowing 
that God was preparing me for a difficult task. 
It is no small affair to get people to deny their 
appetites and put up the standard of a flesh- 
less diet. 

I had written to Zarephath and told 
a few persons about the light I had received, 
and they saw the hand of God in it all, and 
realized that He had been bringing the Church 
up to this for years. 

After reaching home, there was not much 
said on the subject, and I saw that things 
were shaping themselves so that I could go 
back to London and try to bring the property 
deal to a close. 

Saturday morning, (November 8th), I 
dreamed I was crossing a great expanse of 
water in an automobile. I knew this meant 
I was to cross the ocean on a fast ship. 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 14L 

Sunday morning, we had a remarkable 
service; I gave what proved to be my parting 
message; heaven came down in our midst, 
and all sang and shouted the praises of God. 
I was so exhausted at the close of the 
service, that I went to my room to rest for 
a few hours. When the bell rang for the 
afternoon meeting, I decided not to go down. 
A burden had come on me for London; I was 
praying and weeping over the condition of 
the people there and 'the need of a place on 
which to locate our printery and put up a 
building for a church and training school. Our 
Institution had sacrificed thousands of dol- 
lars in sending missionaries to England and 
paying the rent of buildings. We had sent 
our best people there, and had done so at 
times when we did not know how we could 
get along without their help. I had crossed 
the ocean many times and suffered much from 
seasickness in trying to get the work estab- 
lished, but it seemed to be a long lane that 
had no turning. 

I felt that I should go again, but there was 
no money in the Church treasury, not even 
for my fare, much less with which to purchase 
property. I cried to God to bring something 



142 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

to pass quickly, and felt that my prayers were 
being answered, for it seemed that angels 
had come to bring a message of cheer and 
comfort to my soul. 

Our people in London had been writing 
to me to come, knowing that some changes 
would have to be made immediately. The lease 
on the property where they were located had 
run out, and could not be renewed, as the 
place was to be sold. We had come up to 
the Red Sea, and it had to open, or all would 
be lost. 

The music and the singing in the chapel 
never sounded more heavenly, and my soul 
was lifted up to the very gates. Soon all 
was quiet and there was almost a death still- 
ness about the place, for the service had 
closed and ! the students and others had gone to 
their rooms to prepare for dinner. 

Then came a knock at my door, and a per- 
son entered and laid a draft on my table for 
$3,400.00. He said, "Perhaps you can use 
this somewhere." 

When I saw the amount, I looked again 
and again to see if it were not $34.00 instead 
of $3,400.00. 

The person who gave it is one of our 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 143 

faithful laborers who has been with the 
Institution for many years. He had owned 
a ranch somewhere in the West which had 
been sold for cash. The letter containing 
the draft had been in the postoffice for several 
days, but failing to call at the office, he had 
only received it the evening before. 

After he left the room, the Spirit whispered, 
"Will you take this money to London and in- 
vest it in property for the work there?" It 
was a trying moment, for the Institution owed 
thousands of dollars on the new building that 
was then being constructed at Bound Brook. 
But this money was the little cake that the 
Lord wanted the Church to bake for London, 
and He demanded it as He did the cake of the 
woman of Sarepta (Zarephath — i Kings 17: 
8-16), when He wished her to give it to Elijah. 

I said yes to God, and with the decision 
came the assurance that our immediate obli- 
gations at home would be met in some way. 

I then hastened to 'the dining room where 
our people were assembled for the evening 
meal, and told them all that had happened. 
They were so blest they marched around the 
tables and shouted the praises of God. It was 
a scene never to be forgotten. All wanted a 



144 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

part in baking the little cake and sending it 
across the sea, and God honored the step 
taken by a mighty outpouring of the Spirit. 

The next morning when the mail was 
opened, there were some surprises in small 
amounts which greatly encouraged us. When 
nearly all the letters had been taken care of, 
one was opened containing a draft for 
$1,334.00. 

It would be impossible to describe the scene 
that followed. I could not refrain from giv- 
ing vent to the joy I felt, and the Whole School 
was aroused, anxious to know what more had 
happened. 

We now had nearly five thousand dollars 
in cash that had been received within eighteen 
hours, and money that was wholly unexpected. 
This was enough to shout over, and cause us 
to celebrate our victories as the result of put- 
ting up the standard of a fleshless diet. Sev- 
enteen days before, I had received 'the light on 
the subject, and determined to do my part in 
lifting up the standard, and the gift of this 
money was the result. 

On Monday morning, after the $1,334.00 
had been received, my sons were going to 
New York, and asked me to go to the sta- 




PERHAPS YOU CAN USE THIS SOMEWHERE" 

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I46 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

tion with them. I did so, .not expecting 
to go any farther, but after reaching town, 
I felt that I should go on to New York and 
see about transportation across the ocean, 
thinking I might start the latter part of the 
week. 

I knew nothing about a ship called the 
Lapland; I had perhaps seen the name, but 
that was all. On the way to New York, I 
asked, Is there a ship called the Lapland? 
Later I found there was a new boat of twenty 
thousand tons displacement in the Belgian 
service, and that she would sail on the follow- 
ing Wednesday. 

I made arrangements to go on this vessel, 
and hastened home, with only one day in 
which to get ready. 

When in mid-ocean, the Lord began to 
talk to me about the London work. I never 
spent more profitable days on the sea. Steam- 
ship officials, who were Belgians, did all they 
could for my comfort. It was the first time I 
had ever made the aquaintance of people of 
this nationality, and I prayed earnestly that 
the day might come when our mission- 
aries would be able to reach them with 
the Gospel, and I knew that the first step to- 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 1 47 

ward it would be the establishment of our 
work in London. I thought of the difficulty 
in connection with the language and supposed 
that the missionaries would have to learn to 
speak the language of the country before the 
people could be reached. But, 

"God works in a mysterious way, 

His wonders to perform. 
He plants His footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm." 

At this writing, a little more than a year 
has passed, and as a result of the present 
great European conflict, many thousands of 
refugees from Belgium are now in the Brit- 
ish Isles, and are learning the English lan- 
guage. Instead of our going to them, they 
have come to us, and will soon be able to read 
our literature and understand the Gospel as 
it is preached by our people in Great Britain. 

God makes no mistakes, and when we 
reach our extremity, He works wonders. 

Before leaving home, I gave orders for a 
cablegram to be sent to London, so that our 
people might know that I was on the way. 
The cable consisted of only two words, "Com- 
ing, Lapland." The next day after it reached 



I48 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

London, 100 pounds was received through the 
mail for the work there. It came from a young 
man who had attended the Hyde Park meet- 
ings. A few days after my arrival, he came 
to our Missionary Headquarters and was con- 
verted, after praying nearly all day. 

Wi thin a few weeks, in. different install- 
ments, he placed about three thousand dollars 
at our disposal. At one time he sent 350 
pounds. 

More than eight thousand dollars in cash 
had come in, in answer to prayer, within a few 
weeks, which caused great rejoicing. 

I gathered the little hand in London to- 
gether and delivered my message on a flesh- 
less diet. It was gladly received and all the 
workers expressed their willingness to walk in 
the light. 

Soon a revival broke out, showing the ap- 
proval of the Lord upon the stand we had 
taken. Several persons among our work- 
ers were not sanctified. They sought the 
"second blessing" and prayed with great ear- 
nestness until they obtained it. It was inspiring 
to see one after another break through and get 
the experience. Persons who came in from the 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 149 

outside were so convicted, they found no peace 
day or night. 

In the meantime, we were trying to close 
up the property deal, but there were so many 
hindrances it seemed impossible to do so. Day 
after day we made but little progress, and be- 
coming desperate over the situation, the forts 
of heaven were stormed with prayer. But one 
failure after another would come, and feel- 
ing that the time had arrived for me to return 
home, and that it was useless to wait any 
longer on the decisions of men, I left the 
money that was to be invested in the prop- 
erty and, accompanied by one of the sisters, 
returned to the States. 

On the day we reached Zarephath, a re- 
vival broke out in the School, and it would 
exhaust all language of tongue or pen to de- 
scribe the scenes that followed during the next 
twelve days. When the messages were given, 
it seemed that the very foundations of the 
earth were being shaken. From day to day 
scores of persons wrestled with God and ob- 
tained "the blessing." 

Before leaving for London there was not 
much said on the meat question. God's time 
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there is a season, and a time to every purpose 
under the heaven." 

God wanted this revival to be His seal on 
doing away with the last remains of 'the meat 
curse in our Institution. 

In preaching the Word, the power of God 
came upon me at times until I ran from the 
room, afraid the earthen vessel could not 
stand it. 

The standard of consecration was lifted 
higher than it ever had been before. But there 
was no drawing back, and the fire continued 
to fall until God's special purpose in this meet- 
ing was accomplished. 

On January 226., I left for Denver to con- 
tinue the revival. It was hard work to get 
our people there up to 'the standard, and at 
times my physical strength was almost ex- 
hausted. But the Lord marvelously helped me. 

It had not yet been settled by all in our 
Institution as to whether or not fish was to 
be excluded, but I knew 'that it would have to 
go sooner or later. 

From Denver I went to Los Angeles, and 
conducted a ten days' service. Work was put 
aside in the Missionary Home as far as pos- 
sible; all joined in the siege, which resulted 



152 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

in a great uplift to the Church. There also 
the standard of a fleshless diet was put up. 

On the 26th of February, I left for* New 
Jersey, having been in continuous meetings 
for ten weeks. 

The property deal in London was still un- 
settled, and it was feared that unless some- 
thing was done quickly, the opportunity to 
secure the ground would be lost, and on March 
17th, I sailed again for England. 

During my stay in Denver, I had a severe 
attack of rheumatism, and was so disabled 
I could scarcely walk. I had had rheumatism 
before, but never anything like this. I 
had seen persons who had suffered less with 
it, who became confirmed invalids. My brother 
had rheumatism in his right limb and I in my 
left limb, and one day when we were walking 
down the street together, I noticed we were 
attracting attention by his limping to the right 
and I to the left. This greatly humiliated 
me,' and I wondered why we were thus af- 
flicted. 

When on board the ship, I could scarcely 
lift my limb over a six-inch board piece in 
the doorway. After reaching London, I grew 
worse, and when going out on the street to at- 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 1 53 

tend to business, I had to have one of the sis- 
ters accompany me. While on the ocean, 
the Lord gave me double assurance that He 
wanted fish excluded, with all other kinds of 
flesh, from our Institution. 

I went to the dining room only once, and 
then the waiter overlooked me, and I had to 
leave without getting anything to eat. God 
had a purpose in this which was made clear 
later. 

When my stewardess found that I ate no 
meat, she brought me fish intead. It was 
almost impossible to get anything else, and 
thus the Lord permitted the very thing to be 
forced upon me that He was trying to cut 
off. I often sent the fish back untouched, 
and insisted on the stewardess' bringing me 
vegetables and fruit instead, but it did not 
always please her to do so. But when I fully 
decided to eat no more fish, and told her so, she 
brought what I wanted. I promised the Lord 
before reaching London that I would tell our 
people that fish, with all other flesh, must be 
dispensed with, and that I would write this 
to our Headquarters in New Jersey,' and all 
other branches in the movement. 

I felt a little backward in approaching 



154 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

the workers in London on the subject, and con- 
cluded to put it off until after the property 
had been bought, when I would have more 
time and they would be better prepared for it. 

In London, fish was cheaper than most 
anything else that could be bought, and to dis- 
pense with it entirely would be quite a hard- 
ship. 

The purchasing of the property was now 
foremost in my mind and from day to day I 
tried to bring the deal to a close, but was met 
with the same difficulties that I had been con- 
fronted with, when I tried so hard a few weeks 
before. 

I thought of the fish, time and again, but 
would dismiss it from my mind. Finally, 
almost desperate, I saw nothing else to do, 
but return home with the money I had taken 
'there, and use it to meet some of our financial 
obligations.' 

But the very thought of doing such a thing 
cast a gloom, not only over myself, but over 
the whole house. If I had been burying all 
my friends I could not have felt worse. I 
called the workers in and told them what I 
had decided to do, and it was a shock to them 
of course. 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 1 55 

I thought of the years we had struggled 
trying to get the work established in England, 
the money that had been spent and the sacri- 
fice that had been made, and now to give it 
all up was heart rending. I wept over the 
situation, but decided to go to the steamship 
company to secure passage back to the States. 
I told the missionaries that I had done my best, 
and that I never expected to return again. 

The only consolation I had was that the 
money I had taken there would help to relieve 
the financial pressure at home, as it was given 
to be used wherever it was most needed. 

On the following Sunday morning there 
was a heavy fog, and my rheumatism was 
much worse. I did not go to the services 
that morning, and while the rest were gone 
the Lord spoke to me again about the fish, 
and I planned to call the missionaries .to- 
gether and tell them when they returned 
from meeting, but they brought company with 
them, and the dinner, which included fish, 
was alrea'dy prepared, and I decided to wait 
until after the meal. 

When the visitors were excused, I had 
barely mentioned fish when two of the sisters 
ran from the room in a state of nausea. This 



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helped to convince those present that the Lord 
was in the message. 

There was not a dissenting voice, — every 
one was willing to dispense with fish and all 
other flesh forever, f had done all that I 
could and was ready to leave for home, as 
soon as I could arrange for my transporta- 
tion. But the following Wednesday a burden 
came on me again concerning the property. 
I felt that it would be almost like death to 
return to the States without getting it. To 
make a long story short, before twenty- four 
hours had passed, the Lord showed me just 
what to do. I obeyed, terms were accepted 
and the property was bought. Hallelujah! 
So much for putting up the standard of a 
fleshless diet. 

Greater issues were involved than I had 
ever thought of. There were some technical- 
ities in law that I did not know how to han- 
dle, but God knew and He worked them out 
when the time came. 

Recently we have learned that since this 
property was purchased, it has nearly doub- 
led in value; that a part of the ground can now 
be sold for more than we paid for the whole 
plot. We baked our little cake and gave it 



PUTTING UP THE STANDARD 1 57 

to London when it was so badly needed at 
home, and this is the reward. 

We are waiting now for the war to close, 
or conditions to be such that we can go 
forward with the building. Our printing 
plant has already been installed on part of the 
property, and our London Pillar of Fire and 
The British Sentinel are being published there. 

When the question of eating both meat and 
fish was forever settled and the standard put 
up at our Headquarters and all of the mis- 
sionary branches, my rheumatism disappeared, 
and I have not had it since. I simply forgot 
it. A few days later, I happened to think that 
I was not suffering any more, and wondered 
when the pain left me. 



CHAPTER IX 
A New Epoch 

Saturday, April 4th, I sailed from South- 
ampton on the St. Paul for New York. Four 
days of the voyage the ship was in a terrible 
sea, and most of the time in the trough of the 
waves. As she rolled and plunged, every mo- 
ment threatened destruction. Such a sea, for 
the time of the year, was unusual, and wholly 
unexpected by all on board. 

There was much suffering among the pas- 
sengers. My stewardess, who had been 
in the steamship service for nearly twenty 
years, gave me special attention. She became 
interested in my books, and had others anxious 
to read them, and thus a door was opened to 
reach a few persons with the Gospel. 

I reached Zarephath, April 12th. Our In- 
stitution had now made six months of won- 
derful history. Many things had been ac- 
complished, which time and space forbid men- 
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prosperity, and this we knew was because we 
had done away with flesh. 

Nine days after reaching home the con- 
tract was signed for the purchase of an ad- 
joining farm. Our treasury was empty, but 
we were enabled to borrow a certain amount 
of money with which to make the first pay- 
ment, and the transfer of the deed was made. 
From a human standpoint there was no pos- 
sibility of securing this property on terms that 
our organization could meet. But the Lord 
worked it out in a wonderful way. Our pres- 
ent Headquarters and surroundings were in- 
complete without this property, and we had 
about despaired of getting it, when fortune 
turned in our favor. 

Much is said in the Scriptures about culti- 
vating the ground, and comparisons are made 
with spiritual things. To be efficient in the 
work of the Lord, one must know something 
about how to cultivate the various fruits of 
the ground. To raise a good crop, there 
must be deep plowing, good seed must be 
sown, weeds must be destroyed and foreign 
substances removed. There must be good 
enclosures, and the vermin kept out, or there 
will be nothing to harvest. And just so it 







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is with the field of the Lord, where eternal 
vigilance is the price of souls. 

It takes more than a knowledge of books and 
of the fine arts to fit people for Gospel work. 
The subjects to which so much attention is 
given in the great institutions of learning may 
have their places, but the heroes of all ages 
have had a different schooling, invariably of 
God's own choosing. The Scriptures say that 
knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth, and 
if any man think that he knoweth anything, 
he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know 
(i Cor. 8:1-2). 

Take the young people away from the 
large cities, harden their muscles, give them 
a liberal education and a thorough knowledge 
of the word of God, and it will do more to keep 
them from the pitfalls of Satan and to es- 
tablish them in life than all the great systems 
of education could ever do. God's greatest 
men have lived in the open. Moses went to 
the back side of the desert and stayed forty 
years, looking after the flocks and herds. 
David's care and love for his father's sheep 
formed the background to a throne. • His de- 
livering the lamb from the paw of the bear 
and the mouth of the lion showed the material 



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in his moral and spiritual structure. When 
Saul's trained warriors cowered before Goli- 
ath, David proved to be the hero of the hour, by 
offering to fight with him, and he proved his 
efficiency by taking the head off the champion 
of the Philistines and removing the reproach 
from Israel. 

There could be no greater sign of apostasy 
than the way people flock to the large cities. 
Lot left Abraham in the plains and went to 
Sodom and got into trouble, and conditions 
have not changed; Jesus said that in the last 
days it would be as it was in the days of Noah 
and in the days of Lot. 

The pleasures and pastimes that large cities 
afford are sought by those who shun a rugged 
life, such as every Christian must live if he ex- 
pects to make the race to heaven. It has always 
been the Lord's plan to draw His people away 
from densely populated cities, and so has He 
worked in behalf of our Institution. He saw 
that we needed enlargement in order to train 
young people for His service, and made the 
acquisition of two nearby farms possible at 
this time when He wanted to reward us for the 
stand we had taken on meat. 

In our School some thought it was all 



164 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

right to eat fish, inasmuch as Jesus 
fed the multitudes with the loaves and fishes 
and ate fish himself. This was perhaps the 
most serious argument with which we had 
been confronted, and it had to be settled on 
Scriptural grounds. 

On two different occasions Jesus fed the 
multitudes. The first time a lad provided 
five loaves and two fishes, and these, when 
once in the hands of the Lord, were sufficient 
to feed the whole company. He commanded 
them to sit down by fifties, and after all were 
fed, twelve baskets of fragments were taken 
up. The lad was not only supplied, but he had 
the joy of seeing others with a great sufficien- 
cy as the result of his offering. 

When people with the right motives sur- 
render all they possess to the Lord, He accepts 
their offerings, and the result is untold bless- 
ings are brought to others. We live only as we 
live for others. If our lives do not flow out to a 
perishing world, the channel for our own sup- 
plies will be cut off. 

On another occasion, a great multitude was 
fed with seven loaves and a few small fishes. 
The bread and fishes symbolized Jesus who 
was to be made an offering for sin. Jesus 



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was both human and divine, and in sav- 
ing others, He saved himself. Had He 
failed in the plan of redemption, He would 
have become an arch-devil and would have 
plunged into perdition to co-operate with 
Diabolus in trying to damn the world. And 
how grateful the human race should be that 
He stood every test and came out more than 
conqueror. 

After the crucifixion, 'the disciples went 
fishing. They toiled all night and caught 
nothing. The dispensation of secular employ- 
ments, for them, was over. Thenceforth they 
were to be dispensers of God's word. 

In the early morning, Jesus stood on the 
shore, but they did not know Him. There 
are not many persons who know Jesus when 
they are engaged in the pursuits of this world. 
He may be. standing close enough to look 
into their faces, and even speak to them, but 
they do not recognize Him. 

When He asked the disciples if they had 
any meat, they said that they had not. 
Then He commanded them to cast the net on 
the right side of the ship. They did so, and 
found that there were so many fishes in the 
net, they were unable to draw it. 



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John, who had closer fellowship with Christ 
than the other disciples, knew that a miracle 
had been performed, and said, "It is the Lord." 
Peter, taking John at his word, leaped into the 
sea to go to Jesus. How often prayer is an- 
swered and otherwise miracles are wrought, 
and people fail to see the hand of the Lord 
in them ! They attribute everything to nat- 
ural causes, and thus discredit the works of 
the Almighty, and grieve Him with their 
doubts. 

Peter had no outer garment on when he 
leaped into the sea. His nakedness symbolized 
his spiritual condition. He had forsaken his call 
and gone back to his nets. When a person 
leaves the work to which God has called him, 
and turns back, he is in a deplorable state. 

The other disciples came dragging the net 
with 153 great fishes. They were hungry and 
weary with the night's toil, but Jesus had al- 
ready prepared fish for their breakfast. It 
was cooked and on the coals awaiting them. 
The fish, as before stated, symbolized His own 
body that was offered up as a sacrifice for sin. 
He and His disciples were still living in the old 
dispensation. The fish that was cooked on 
their arrival represented the finished work on 



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Calvary. There is no better way to illustrate 
the needs of the soul than by those of the body. 

If Jesus prepared fish for the disciples and 
ate of it himself, why dispense with fish ? Some 
of our people were meeting this question, and 
on the belief that fish should not be excluded, 
they had not quit eating it altogether. 

On a certain morning in the class room, a 
person asked, "Did not Jesus eat fish?" "Yes," 
a brother answered, "but Jesus lived in the old 
dispensation." His answer was like a flash 
from heaven, and was accepted by those pres- 
ent, and all doubts and uncertainty were swept 
away. The Christian dispensation began on 
the day of Pentecost, fifty days after the cruci- 
fixion of Christ. Most people think of Jesus as 
living in the new dispensation, and it is not 
strange that they should do so. He said, "It is 
expedient for you that I go away: for if I go 
not away, the Comforter will not come unto 
you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you" 
(John 16:7). "Christ is the end of the law for 
righteousness to every one that believeth" 
(Rom. 10:4). The Holy Spirit 'took the place 
of Jesus on earth. He came as the Comforter 
to be the abiding guest of the heart. 

The disciples were commanded to tarry in 



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Jerusalem until they were endued with power 
from on high. They waited ten days in the 
upper room and the Spirit came like a mighty 
rushing wind and sat upon each of them. 

The 1 20, who had been waiting, rushed 
down into the streets and preached with 
tongues of fire, and three thousand were con- 
verted in one day. This was the beginning of 
the new dispensation, which will continue until 
Christ comes again. 

When the fish was prepared for the dis- 
ciples who had toiled all night and taken noth- 
ing, the conversation Jesus had with Peter 
showed that He had come for a specific pur- 
pose. These men had all been called to the 
ministry, but after the crucifixion they re- 
turned to their nets, no doubt feeling that the 
cause they had so ardently espoused had 
failed. But the appearance of Jesus on 
the shore banished all their doubts. 

They must abandon secular employment 
forever, and He had come to make it known 
to them. 

After they had dined, He said to Peter, 
"Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more 
than these?" 



A NEW EPOCH 169 

Peter answered, "Yea, Lord; thou know- 
est that I love thee." 

He had left his occupation as a fisherman 
before to follow the Lord, but as multitudes 
have done, he yielded to temptation and went 
back to his old haunts in pursuit of temporal 
things. The night before the crucifixion he 
told Jesus he was ready to go with Him to 
prison and to death, but when he was accused 
by a maid, he denied his Lord. Peter had the 
carnal mind which explains his vacillating 
nature. He was never known to waver after 
he was sanctified on the day of Pentecost. 

It was he that took the initiative and went 
back to his nets, and the other disciples fol- 
lowed him, and naturally he was the one to be 
addressed. When the question was pressed 
home to his heart, "Peter was grieved be- 
cause he said unto him the third time, Lovest 
thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou 
knowest all things; thou knowest that I love 
thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." 

This was his second call to the ministry, 
and of course all secular employment had to 
be left behind. There was no more fishing 
for Peter or any of the rest of the disciples. 
If they were to feed the Lord's sheep they 



170 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

could not labor for the meat that perishes. 
There is nothing to prove that they went 
fishing or even ate fish after this. If led by the 
Spirit, people will not spend their valuable time 
fishing, either for pleasure or profit. 

When the disciples received the first call, 
Jesus told them He would make them fishers 
of men. The only way to catch men is to 
follow Him. 

When tribute money was needed, Jesus 
told Peter to go down to the sea, catch a fish 
and take the money out of its mouth. The 
fish here symbolizes one who has been 'taken 
on the Gospel hook. God's servants must 
have their needs supplied, and His plan is 
for them to catch men with the Gospel bait, 
who in turn will administer to their temporal 
needs. It is contrary to the Scriptures to 
lay up treasures on earth. "The just shall 
live by faith." The Gospel not only trans- 
forms the heart, but it reaches all that one 
possesses, including the pocketbook. Those 
who receive spiritual help will gladly share 
their temporal things with those who have 
ministered to their needs. No one is worthy 
to bear the name of Christian who would 
not do this. A profession without the fruit 



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is worthless. Matt. 7:20 says, "Wherefore 
by their fruits ye shall know them." 

If a person gets salvation and walks in 
the light, he will be unselfish; if he has been 
unmerciful his heart will soften under the 
melting influence of the Spirit. 

Some experiences in the early history of 
our organization forever settled the question 
of fishing. There are those who will admit 
that it is usually a waste of time, and draw the 
line there, but much more than this is involved. 
Fishing comes under the curse, and there is 
something better for Christians to do. 

After the present site of our Institution in 
New Jersey was obtained and some of our peo- 
ple had moved to this place from Colorado, the 
desire of the students, and others, to go fishing 
became a constant source of annoyance. With 
the canal on one side and the river on the 
other they were tempted to leave their post 
of duty most any time of day to share the 
pleasures of the anglers that came from al- 
most all parts of the country to fish in the 
canal, the Raritan and the Millstone Rivers. 
There was scarcely a day but what some of 
the boys would get into trouble over the boat, 
fishing rods or something else. Each day 




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it took on a more serious aspect, and all ef- 
forts to discipline the offenders failed. One 
of our professional musicians, who had come 
from the West, and who, being a teacher, was 
given more liberty than others, was so en- 
thusiastic over his newly-acquired ability to 
catch fish, he was almost unfit at times for 
his duties. 

While in a boat with one of the young 
men who was preparing for missionary work, 
some discussion arose over the oars, and in a 
playful mood the young man shook the boat. 

The professor, somewhat indignant, rose 
to "take hold of him, lost his balance and went 
overboard. He reached the shore in a pitiful 
plight. 

The episode furnished much amusement 
for both young and old on the place. The 
professor determined not to bear it any 
longer and made a vigorous protest to those 
in charge. 

All efforts to quiet the fun-makers failed, 
and despairing of any improvement in matters, 
our valuable musical instructor packed his 
goods and left, never to return. 

Other experiences on the river bank led 
to the complete abandonment of fishing for 



174 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

all persons in the School. The last two per- 
sons who vetured to go caught eels, which 
looked so much like snakes when they an- 
grily wrapped themselves around the lines, 
the two anglers were so frightened they left 
their poles and returned to the house, with 
a gruesome story to tell. One declared that 
she would never go fishing again, and she has 
kept her word. 

Several years have passed and hundreds 
Come and go, but the question of fishing is 
not even mentioned. 



CHAPTER X 
Light on the Scriptures 

There are certain scriptures used by some 
people as an argument against a fleshless diet, 
but when properly understood there is no con- 
fliction. When the Epistles were written a 
bridge was being constructed over the gulf be- 
tween Judaism and the Christian Church. The 
Gentiles who were being reached with the Gos- 
pel were scarcely civilized. Barbaric customs 
had to be met by the Gospel minister, and some 
things were allowable, as Paul says, that were 
not profitable (i Cor. 10: 23). 

The Jews who had embraced the new faith 
had to be on their guard continually lest they 
should get back into bondage and forfeit their 
liberty in Christ. The law was the sub- 
ject of ceaseless agitation and the Hebrews 
were in more danger than the heathen 
who had been converted to Christianity. Paul 
laid down a few rules to aid both Jews and 
Gentiles in that age of semi-barbarism. 1 



I76 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

Cor. 10:25 says, "Whatsoever is sold in the 
shambles, that eat, asking no question for 
conscience sake." The Twentieth Century New 
Testament, published by the Fleming H.Revell 
Company, says, "Eat anything that is sold in 
the market, without making inquiries to satisfy 
your scruples." 

In no sense is the eating of meat the issue 
here. The question was not raised as to 
whether or not it was right to eat animal flesh. 
The only question involved was that of eating 
food that was offered to idols. The consciences 
of some of the converts who had been saved 
from idolatry were weak on this, and Paul 
said, "If any of them that believe not bid you 
to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatso- 
ever is set before you, eat, asking no question 
for conscience sake." There were those who 
supposed that after food had been offered to 
an idol it was denied, but others with greater 
enlightenment understood that an idol is noth- 
ing at all, any more than any other piece of 
wood or stone. But for the sake of those who 
were breaking away from heathen worship, 
Paul exhorted them to abstain from eating 
such food, lest it should be a cause of stum- 




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I78 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

bling to them, thus showing that the complete 
deliverance of those who were weaker in the 
faith had not yet been accomplished. 

Knowing this, the apostle exhorted them to 
ask no questions while they were eating, lest 
they should find the food had been offered to an 
idol, and then for conscience' sake they would 
have to refrain from eating it. In this way 
they would avoid controversy and division. 

There is not a doubt but that the heathen 
ate meat, and perhaps there were those 
of Hebrew origin among the Christian 
converts who ate it also. It was not 
the time to introduce this question among 
the Corinthians. The first and greatest 
object was to get people won away from 
idolatry. It would have diverted their 
attention and caused endless discussion when 
they were unprepared for it. Graver sins 
must take the precedence over minor offenses. 
If a person charged with a petty theft were 
also guilty of murder, one would not think 
of arraigning him on the minor charge first, 
so with these Corinthians, Paul had to deal 
first with their grosser sins. When he ob- 
served how some caused others to stum- 
ble by eating meat that was offered to 



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idols, he said, "Wherefore, if meat make my 
brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the 
world standeth, lest I make my brother to 
offend/' This does not imply that he ate 
meat himself, it was an exhortation to those 
who were stumbling others to put it aside. 

In the 7th chapter of Romans, in imperson- 
ating one who has the carnal mind, he says, 
"O wretched man that I am! who shall de- 
liver me from the body of this death ?" Paul 
did not have the carnal mind, he had gotten 
rid of it years before. He simply used the 
first person to make his statements more 
emphatic. In the next chapter, he says, 
"There is therefore now no condemnation 
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk 
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For 
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus 
hath made me free from the law of 
sin and death." This shows that he was free 
from inbred sin. 

The Scriptures must be studied from the 
standpoint from which they were written; 
then not so much advantage will be given to 
the devil. 

1 Cor. 14: 34-35 has been much used 
against woman's ministry. The context 



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shows that the only question involved at the 
time was that of discipline. The heathen 
w T ives of some of the Christian converts were 
illiterate, and not understanding what Paul 
said, made a disturbance by asking their hus- 
bands while the apostle was speaking, and he 
exhorted them to keep silent and ask their hus- 
bands, who were more intelligent, at home. 
The original brings out the thought that they 
were talking like children, in an undertone, 
which made confusion. Missionaries in the 
foreign fields have the same thing to contend 
with at the present time. 

This misunderstanding of Paul's attitude 
toward woman's ministry has been used by 
Satan to rob her of her part in the preaching 
of the Gospel, and helped to keep the world in 
midnight darkness for centuries. But, thank 
God, the day is breaking and these scriptures 
are being cleared up that have been wrested 
by the devil and used in the upbuilding of his 
kingdom. 

Philip had four daughters who prophesied, 
or preached (Acts 21: 9). Paul asked to be 
remembered to "those women" who helped 
him "in the gospel" (Phil. 4:3). Aquila and 
Priscilla, whom he took with him on one 



LIGHT ON THE SCRIPTURES l8l 

of his journeys, were both preachers (Acts 18: 
18). 

Acts 2: 17-18 says, "And it shall come to 
pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour 
out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your 
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and 
your young men shall see visions, and your 
old men shall dream dreams: And on my 
servants and on my handmaidens I will pour 
out in those days of my Spirit; and they 
shall prophesy." These passages are suffi- 
cient to offset any argument against woman's 
ministry, and show that we must put scripture 
where it belongs. 

In Ephesians 6: 5, Paul exhorts slaves to 
be obedient to their own masters. The true 
rendering is, "Slaves, be obedient to your 
earthly masters, with respect and eager anx- 
iety to please and with simplicity of motive 
as if you were obeying Christ." But this is 
no argument in favor of slavery. It simply 
shows how people should act under circum- 
stances which they are unable to change. The 
curse of slavery has been removed only 
through Christian enlightenment, and the 
meat curse will go in' the same way. It will 
be a desperate battle, in which the consciences 



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and appetites of men will be involved. But 
right will win in the end. Barbarism must 
go before the dawn of a new day. If people 
had the moral courage to control their appe- 
tites, the conflict would soon be over, and 
dumb animals would no longer be bred and 
nourished for the slaughter. 

When the context is understood, in the 
latest and best versions, there is no Scriptural 
argument in favor of animal flesh as an article 
of diet. \ 

i Cor 8 : 8 says, "But meat commendeth us 
not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the 
better; neither, if we eat not, are we the 
worse." Weymouth's translation says, "It is 
true that a particular kind of food will not 
bring us into God's presence; we are neither 
inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor 
superior to them if we eat it." No comment 
here is necessary. It is plainly seen that the 
matter under discussion was with reference 
to food offered to idols. There were those 
who thought they would be commended to 
God because they did not eat such food, and 
those who believed they were more righteous 
by eating it. Paul's argument here was sim- 
ply to show that the eating of food offered 



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to idols did not change a person's spiritual 
condition, unless he had sinned against his 
conscience. 

Romans 14: 1-3 says, "Him that is weak in 
the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful dis- 
putations. For one believeth that he may 
eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth 
herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him 
that eateth not; and let not him which eateth 
not judge him that eateth: for God hath re- 
ceived him." 

Weymouth says, "I now pass to another 
subject. Receive as a friend a man whose 
faith is weak, but not for the purpose of de- 
ciding mere matters of opinion. One man's 
faith allows him to eat anything, while a man 
of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables. 
Let not him who eats certain food look down 
on him who abstains from it, nor him who 
abstains from it find fault with him who eats 
it; for God has received both of them." 

The "other subject" is the same as that 
in 1 Corinthians, and has reference to the 
controversy. There were those who ate only 
herbs, but they were so weak spiritually they 
could not believe that God would receive any 
one who ate animal flesh, whether he had been 



184 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

enlightened on the subject or not. The very 
fact that there were those who did not eat 
flesh shows that it had been condemned by the 
Apostolic teachers, but there were those evi- 
dently who did not have the light on the sub- 
ject, even though they had been converted. It 
is a sign of great weakness to judge others 
by one's own spiritual light; it shows a lack 
of charity, or divine love. Among the mixed 
multitudes no rigid rules could be laid down, 
lest burdens should be placed upon them that 
they were unable to bear. 

Among the Gentiles, as it is with ' the 
heathen today, there were many things to be 
taken into consideration : their parentage, 
early education and training, their environ- 
ments and spiritual opportunities. It is not 
consistent for those who are more mature in 
the study and practice of God's word to meas- 
ure such people by their own standard of 
Christianity. The writer ate meat for years 
before she was convinced that it was detri- 
mental to spiritual development. But the time 
came when she had to dispense with it for- 
ever, or God would not hold her guiltless. He 
judges people by the light they have. When He 
speaks once, twice or even the third time, and 



LIGHT ON THE SCRIPTURES 185 

His voice is unheeded, His Spirit may be 
grieved away, never to return. Among those 
who profess to understand the Scriptures, 
there is great ignorance. It is the most diffi- 
cult thing in the world to instruct those who 
have long followed the traditions of men. 

Symbolism is a study that but few know 
anything about, yet both the Old and New 
Testaments abound in types and symbols. The 
law must be written in the heart before a per- 
son can properly understand the Bible. He- 
brews 8:10 says, "For this is the covenant that 
I will make with the house of Israel after those 
days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into 
their mind, and write them in their hearts: 
and I will be to them a God, and they shall 
be to me a people." 

After a person is converted, he under- 
stands in part, but it takes the second work 
of grace to write the law in his heart. He 
must be freed from all inbred defilement, 
before Christ will occupy the throne of his 
heart. John i : i, 14 says, "In the begin- 
ning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God. * * And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 



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(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace 
and truth." Christ is the living Word, and 
when He takes up His abode in the heart, 
there will be no difficulty about understand- 
ing the Scriptures. Proper distinctions will 
be made between those which have reference 
to material and those to spiritual things. 

There are those who get into error and 
go to all kinds of extremes because they ma- 
terialize passages which have reference wholly 
to spiritual things ; or spiritualize those which 
have reference to material things. Christian 
Scientists have spiritualized everything and 
are the worst fanatics to be found any- 
where. There is nothing material with 
them, not even the body in which they live, 
or the earth on which they walk. The 
belief that there is any such thing as sub- 
stance they claim is a mental illusion. 

Those who materialize everything, mag- 
nify non-essentials and worship places, old 
relics, pieces of wood or stone that are held 
sacred because of their associations. Water 
baptism is magnified and substituted for the 
baptism of the Holy Ghost. Much stress by 



LIGHT ON THE SCRIPTURES 187 

these materialistic worshipers is put upon 
rites and ceremonies. 

Roman Catholics have gone so far as to 
claim that they can turn bread and wine into 
the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. 
Such side issues and diversions are ruinous 
to both soul and body. Good common sense 
will go a long way toward helping people to 
keep their spiritual bearings. 

Peter's vison of the sheet knit at the four 
corners and let down out of heaven, full of 
all manner of four-footed beasts and creep- 
ing things, is an argument used by some who 
claim that the embargo has been taken off 
swine's flesh and that of other unclean animals. 

Acts 10:9-15 says, "Peter went up upon 
the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 
And he became very hungry, and would have 
eaten : but while they made ready, he fell into 
a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a cer- 
tain vessel descending unto him, as it had 
been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and 
let down- to the earth: Wherein were all man- 
ner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and 
wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of 
the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, 
Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, 



LIGHT ON THE SCRIPTURES 189 

Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that 
is common or unclean. And the voice spake 
unto him again the second time, What God 
hath cleansed, that call not thou common. 
This was done thrice: and the vessel was re- 
ceived up again into heaven." 

The "all manner of fourfooted beasts * * 
and creeping things" in this sheet symbolized 
the Gentile nations to whom the Gospel was to 
be preached. One proof of this is Peter's 
statement after he went back to Jerusalem. 
There were certain persons who censured him 
for going into the houses of Gentiles and eat- 
ing with them. Then he rehearsed to them 
his vision, showing how it had been revealed 
to him that Gentiles were to receive the Gospel. 
Peter's explanation convinced his opponents, 
that the vision dealt solely with the heathen na- 
tions of which the unclean animals were a type. 
After having received his message, they mar- 
veled at the mercy of God. There was noth- 
ing said about the embargo's being lifted from 
the hog or any other creature that was found 
in the sheet. 

If we are to take the Word as it reads, 
there were apes, dogs, cats, reptiles, lizards, 
crocodiles, and all manner of insects, in the 



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sheet. And those who claim the hog was 
cleansed, to be consistent, would have to grant 
that every wild beast and creeping thing in 
the sheet was cleansed, too. 

A once noted evangelist in his plea for 
swine's flesh referred to Peter's vision and 
argued that the hog had been cleansed, but 
before he had finished his address, he said, 
"Indeed you can eat monkeys, cats, dogs, 
snakes, lizards and spiders, if you wish to do 
so, but I beg to be excused." His last remark 
left him in a pitiable plight and was conclu- 
sive evidence that the Lord had no reference 
to Peter's eating these unclean animals and 
creeping things, when He said, "Rise, Peter; 
kill, and eat." 

Apart from the fact that the flesh of unclean 
animals and birds was excluded as sacrificial 
offerings, there was a hygienic reason for peo- 
ple's being prohibited from eating such flesh 
in the old dispensation, and if it was 
unfit to be taken into the human system then, 
what argument is there to prove that it is not 
injurious now? 



CHAPTER XI 
How to Reduce the Cost of Living 

The great cry everywhere is how to re- 
duce the cost of living. All kinds of theories 
have been advanced, but none have gotten at 
the root of the difficulty until since the war 
broke out. When famine is facing the war- 
ring nations, economic measures are being 
forced upon them that help to solve the cost 
of living. 

Grain must not be fed to cattle, is the edict, 
it will be needed for bread. Kill the cattle, 
they say, or feed them potato peelings, the 
stalks of vegetables and other kinds of fodder, 
but save the wheat and rye for the people. Is it 
not strange that this measure was not adopted 
before the world reached such a crisis? 
Every country has its poor, and in many of the 
large cities in both Europe and America, thou- 
sands of children have been forced to attend 
school without their breakfasts, while millions 
of bushels of grain were being fed to hogs and 



192 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

cattle, to be slaughtered for man to consume 
upon his lusts, and many more millions of 
bushels converted into alcoholic beverages to 
ruin both body and soul. 

When people refuse to use the sense that 
God has given them, He will force them into 
submission if it takes the blood of millions to 
do it. Almost the whole world is involved 
in war, and the awful consequences are being 
seen and felt everywhere. But it is an ill wind 
that blows no one any good. The European 
War, is a terrible tragedy, but it .is solving 
many problems that the nations have refused to 
handle. Reform movements are spreading over 
the world with such rapidity that we stand 
amazed, and wonder what a day will bring 
forth. The flesh and liquor curses must go. 

Liquor has been the cause of killing more 
men than all wars combined. Decaying an- 
imal flesh has done its part to curse the hu- 
man race with disease and bring on prema- 
ture old age. And man, with his intelligence, 
has meekly submitted to the tyranny of both. 
When meat is eaten, even in moderate quan- 
tities, it dulls and stupefies the intellect, clogs 
the kidneys, and causes pain in the back. It 
is responsible for consumption, cancer and 




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nearly all rheumatic ailments. What more 
can it do than it has done ! Think of the suf- 
fering the consumption of flesh has entailed 
upon poor, dumb brutes ! 

There are those who become so accustomed 
to inflicting pain, they can do it without a 
tremor or the flinching of a muscle. They will 
knock an animal in the head and see him suffer 
and die, and a few hours later sit down to a 
table amid jesting and revelry and consume the 
flesh. Then they will profess to have the 
spirit of the meek and lowly Christ, who said, 
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall ob- 
tain mercy." 

Butchers become so depraved that, in some 
places, they are not allowed to serve on a jury. 
Their cruelty often incapacitates them for 
other work. No person would want to have 
a teacher punish his children who had once 
been a butcher. 

In my early life, I remember when a 
neighbor was called upon to help lay out a 
corpse. He handled the body so roughly, the 
person who assisted him was horrified. It 
was afterward learned that this man had 
served in the Civil War and much of his time 
was spent taking care of the dead and dying. 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING 1 95 

He had become so accustomed to seeing peo- 
ple suffer he was hardened. It is a fearful 
thing to be in such a condition. If the devil 
is only given a chance, he will make men's 
hearts like adamant. 

There are myriads of demons that throng 
the atmosphere. They seek human habita- 
tions, and when once they find an entrance, un- 
less restraint is put upon them, they will hor- 
rify people with their atrocities. Those who 
subsist upon animal flesh are more likely 
than others to be dominated by these unclean 
spirits. 

Some parents treat their children unmer- 
cifully, and in a rage of temper have been 
known to break their bones or cause their 
death when punishing them. These parents 
are usually addicted to liquor or are riotous 
eaters of flesh. 

People who have the nerve to kill dumb 
animals and eat the flesh, are not in a normal 
state, there is something wrong with them. 
Such persons are dangerous when their tem- 
per is inflamed. There are those who shrink 
from dealing the death blow, but have no 
scruples against eating the flesh after others 



I96 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

have done it. In the sight of God, they are 
equally accountable. 

A person who is an accomplice in a mur- 
der is equally guilty with the one who com- 
mits the deed, and the law will require him 
to pay the same penalty. Those who are un- 
willing to curb their appetites and dispense 
with flesh show that they have no self-re- 
straint and that their moral standard is very 
low. They may tell others what to do, but 
their influence will go no farther than their 
own doorway, unless they are willing to set 
the example. 

There are thousands of people engaged in 
so-called reforms who are wholly without sin- 
cerity. Let the ministers in the modern pulpits, 
and the law-makers, set the example by making 
a sacrifice, and their efforts to alleviate poverty 
and suffering may amount to something. But 
they say, "Do not as I do, but as I tell you." 
There is a day of reckoning for all such per- 
sons, when the motives of their hearts will 
be made manifest. 

Alan, although having intelligence superior 
to that of the lower animals, in some respects 
is more debased than they. He will eat what 
many of them refuse to eat, and does so know- 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING I97 

ing that he is defiling both soul and body. 

The demand for flesh compels the farmer 
to take his grain, which has already cost 
enough to produce, and submit it to a process 
which converts it into something fit only for 
the habitation of demons. When the legions 
were cast out of the Gadarene, they asked to 
go into the swine and the Lord permitted them 
to do so. The result was the whole herd ran 
down over the precipice into the sea and were 
drowned. Yet people eat the flesh of this foul 
beast, and through a processs of digestion and 
assimilation make it a part of the human 
structure. Is it any wonder that so many 
people have strange spirits in these last days? 

When corn is ground and made into bread, 
it furnishes every element necessary for man's 
physical needs, but the cry is for flesh, and it 
must be converted into hogs, sheep and cat- 
tle, and after the dead carcasses of these an- 
imals have been placed on the market, the 
flesh, foul with germs, is bought by the self- 
ish, and unscrupulous, and taken into the hu- 
man system, while the cry for bread, from the 
thousands, is going up into the ears of the 
Almighty. 

Man used to live a thousand years, but 



I90 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

now if he reaches three score and ten, he is 
looked upon as having lived out his full time. 
In fact, the average life of man has been 
cut down until it is only about thirty-five 
years. Before he is fifty, he often has tot- 
tering steps, wrinkles and gray hairs. There 
is a cause back of all this, and people should 
find out what it is. 

• When Jesus made a breach in the hog in- 
dustry, the men of Gadara wanted Him to de- 
part out of their coasts. They wanted hogs 
more than salvation, and there are multitudes 
of this character today. When they smell 
bacon or ham cooking, they cannot resist the 
temptation to indulge their appetites, and 
often decide then and there between swine 
and Jesus Christ. No drunkard is looked 
upon as being a Christian, and the day will 
come when flesh-eaters will be in just as much 
disgrace. The Scriptures put them in the 
same class. Proverbs 23: 20-21 says, "Be not 
among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of 
flesh; For the drunkard and the glutton shall 
come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe 
a man with rags." 

To take diseased animal flesh into the hu- 
man system is defiling the temple of God. 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING 1 99 

I Corinthians 3: 16-17 says, "Know ye not 
that ye are the temple of God, and that the 
Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man 
defile the temple of God, him shall God de- 
stroy; for the temple of God is holy, which 
temple ye are." The Lord will bear with some 
things until people have an opportunity of 
learning better, but when right and wrong are 
,set before them, if they choose the wrong, they 
will have to abide the consequences, and so it 
will" be with those who continue to slay and eat 
flesh. 

Philippians 3:18-19 says,"(For many walk, 
of whom I have told you often, and now tell 
you even weeping, that they are the enemies of 
the cross of Christ : Whose end is destruction, 
whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in 
their shame, who mind earthly things. )" 

King James Version of 1 Corinthians 6: 13 
says, "Meats for the belly, and the belly for 
meats: but God shall destroy .both it and 
them." 

Romans 14:21 (Twentieth Century New 
Testament) says, "The right course is to ab- 
stain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything 
that is a stumbling block to your brother." 
I have visited the camps of Indians on the 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING 201 

western plains and found them eating raw 
meat with the fresh blood running out of it. 
Their savage nature is largely due to their 
carnivorous propensities. They have no mercy 
on their beasts of burden. They will load 
their pack animals and often ride them to 
death. Many times I have seen their horses 
staggering as they went, but they would con- 
tinue to kick, pound and beat them, with rods, 
clubs or anything they could get hold of. 

They would have the center poles of their 
tepees tied on each side of the horses, then 
the Indian bucks would get on the horses and 
ride, while the women walked and carried their 
infants strapped to boards on their backs. 
White men would often talk about the cruelty 
of these Indians, but they never seemed to 
think they were doing anything wrong when 
they went to the corral, lassoed a steer, threw 
him and stuck him with a knife, to bleed and 
die, and then ordered his flesh to be served for 
supper. Such inconsistency ! No wonder there is 
no response in the hearts of people when they 
see the suffering and poverty of those who 
have not the necessities of life. Then these 
same persons with hands stained with blood 



202 WHY 1 DO NOT EAT MEAT 

will go to church, sit up in hired pews and 
sing, 

"Be merciful to me, O Lord." 

Those who expect to obtain mercy, must 
show mercy. At best, man in his sinful state, is 
unmerciful. Proverbs 12:10 says, "A right- 
eous man regardeth the life of his beast: but 
the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." 

On the western plains, where the cattle in- 
dustry is the most prosperous, there are vast 
herds that have no shelter in the winter. When 
the snow is on the ground, they often go for 
days without anything to eat. The stock- 
men have nothing to feed them, and the cattle 
have to wait for the wind to blow away the 
snow so they can browse on the brown grass, 
which is all they have to live on through the 
winter. 

When storms are raging, they huddle to- 
gether to keep from freezing. By moving 
constantly and working toward the center 
from the outside, they keep from perishing. 
Those that stray away from the herd have but 
little chance of surviving, for in some places 
the thermometer often goes down to 60 degrees 
below zero. In the spring, there are dead car- 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING 203 

casses everywhere, making a rich harvest for 
those engaged in the fertilizer business. 

When the branding season comes, woe be 
unto the increase of the herds, which are des- 
tined to become the victims of the branding 
iron. They have their inquisition and the in- 
quisitors have as little mercy as the Romanists 
had when they were torturing Protestants be- 
fore the Reformation. However, the heart 
of the Romanist has not changed, he is simply 
under greater restraint. To make cruelty to 
man and beast a penal offense is about the 
only way some people can be successfully dealt 
with. When the heart is hard and calloused 
and there is apparently no conscience to be 
awakened, the strong arm of the law should 
be used. 

When the inquisitors of the western plains 
have made their fires and heated their irons 
red-hot, they lasso their victims and throw 
them; then the hot iron is applied, and held 
on the agonizing creatures until the skin has 
literally been cooked, which results in scars' 
being made that they will carry for life. 

Many times these animals are the victims 
of thieves who put a brand other than the 
owner's on them. Unbranded calves are 



204 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

called mavericks, and some people increase 
their herds by running down other people's 
cattle and putting their own brands on them. 
The whole cattle business shows a state of 
half-barbarism that must disappear before 
more enlightened public sentiment. 

The herdsmen have become so accustomed 
to seeing the poor creatures suffer, there is 
little or no sympathy to be awakened in 
them. 

Often it is difficult for the cattle to get 
water. In dry seasons, hundreds and thou- 
sands of them will gather around mud-holes, 
searching in vain for water to quench 
their thirst. They are often found with their 
tongues swollen and hanging out of their 
mouths, and later they will stagger and fall 
and are unable to rise. 

When marketed, they are taken to the 
nearest cattle-shoot, at a railroad station, and 
loaded into the cars. Of course as much 
money must be saved as possible, and they are 
crowded into the cars until there is not room 
for them to turn around. And in this con- 
dition, being jolted over the plains, they have 
been left for davs without food or water. 



206 WHY I DO NOT EAT MEAT 

Often the weaker ones are trampled to death 
under the feet of others. 

I have traveled many thousands of miles 
over the western plains, and have passed these 
cattle trains without number and have been 
an eye-witness to the sufferings of the animals 
in the crowded cars. It is enough to .break 
a heart of stone, but there is little or no pity 
shown to the creatures God has made. The 
question of dollars and cents outweighs every- 
thing else. 

When the slaughter pens are reached and 
the herds are unloaded, they are usually al- 
lowed to eat and drink for an hour or two, 
or at least long enough to increase their weight, 
before they are run onto the scales and into 
the pens where the iron mallet and the knife 
await them. 

There is no other creature under the sun 
more cruel than man. Sin has so blighted 
and cursed his life in his unconverted state that 
there is no difficulty in tracing his fatherhood 
to the devil himself. Jesus said to the Pharisees 
(hypocritical church members), "Ye are of 
your father the devil, and the lusts of your 
father ye will do" (John 8 144) . When the sin- 
principle has the pre-eminence in the human 



HOW TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING 20? 

heart, -it will manifest itself in cruelty to ani- 
mals and human beings who are in a helpless 
condition. When people are not moved at the 
sight of poverty and suffering, there is ample 
proof of their fatherhood. Most rich men are 
worse than criminals in the sight of God. They 
have accumulated their wealth by the suffer- 
ings of those who are under their tyrannical 
heel, and God's woes are pronounced upon all 
such persons. The Apostle James knew what 
their fate would be, when he said, 

"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl 
for your miseries that shall come upon you. 
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments 
are motheaten. Your gold and silver is can- 
kered; and the rust of them shall be a witness 
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were 
fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for 
the last days. Behold, the hire of the labour- 
ers who have reaped down your fields, which 
is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the 
cries of them which have reaped are entered 
into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have 
lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wan- 
ton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a 
day of slaughter." 

What will become of the cattle-men, those 



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who have heaped treasures together in the 
cattle business, using blood money to purchase 
the pleasures of this world? They have, as 
James says, nourished their hearts, as in a day 
of slaughter. Habakkuk 2: 12 says, "Woe to 
him that buildeth a town with blood, and stab- 
lisheth a city by iniquity!" The nth verse 
says, "For the stone shall cry out of the wall, 
and the beam out of the timber shall an- 
swer it." 

I have known cattle-men in the West to 
make fortunes and move to the cities and 
build fine houses, but God's woes followed 
them. Their children died suddenly or other 
calamities befel them. There was scarcely 
an exception to the rule, — sooner or later 
these homes were draped in mourning, 
which could not be attributed to any other 
cause than God's displeasure upon them. 

May God hasten the day when men will 
become more humane and the cattle curse will 
be removed from the land. It has taken 
thousands of years to teach men some things 
they should know. They are coming to a 
knowledge of these things now through bit- 
ter experiences. 



ADDENDA 

Russia is rejoicing in the betterment of 
her citizens since the manufacture and sale of 
liquor was abolished. God has suddenly 
awakened the world to the fact that the con- 
sumption of alcoholic liquors is a worse ca- 
lamity than war, but it has taken untold suf- 
fering to bring this to pass. 

Since prohibition measures have been in 
force in Russia and other war-stricken nations, 
the people have reaped untold benefits, and in 
these countries the people will also be com- 
pelled to stop eating meat. While the last 
pages of this book are being prepared for the 
press, the following two items are taken from 
the daily papers, showing that as a matter of 
economy, the raising of animals for food 
must be abolished. 

20,000,000 Pigs in Germany Must Die 

An estimate gives the number of swine in Ger- 
many as 20,000,000, and death to the pigs is now the 

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cry because of the amount of potatoes and other food- 
stuffs they consume. 

It is demanded that 400,000 be killed daily and 
their meat purchased in the communities where they 
are killed. It is estimated that for each pig killed 
between now (March 11, 1915,) and April the 
existence of ten Germans will be insured until 
October. 

No Meat for Vienna Poor 

Venice, March 14. — Private letters received here 
from Vienna say that the poorer classes in that city 
are suffering acutely on account of the scarcity of 
food. Meat has long since disappeared from their 
tables. Bread is scarce and high in price, it being 
almost impossible to buy flour. 

Lard costs more than butter. Although eggs, milk 
and butter have risen greatly in price, it probably will 
become still more difficult to obtain them in the near 
future, as farmers are unable to procure fodder and 
are killing their cows and chickens. 



From the moral side, there is no argument in de- 
fense of our flesh-eating habits. Unless we are our- 
selves as hypocrites, we had better give up at once 
our foolish talk and Christian prayers about Gentle- 
ness and Love while we lay blood-stained hands and 
ravenous lips upon God's creatures. We cannot be 
spiritual beings and beasts of prey at the same time. 

— Rev. R. J. Porteous. 



It is not a question of palate, of custom, of expe- 



ADDENDA 211 

diency, but of RIGHT. As a Christian minister, I 
have had to make my decision. My palate was on 
the side of custom; my intellect argued for the expe- 
dient; but my higher reason and conscience left me 
no alternative. Our Lord came to give life, and we 
do not follow Him by taking life needlessly. So I 
was compelled against myself, to eschew carnivorism. 
— Rev. J. Tyssul Davies, B. A. 



Butchery will go, as certainly as Slavery, War, 
and Drunkenness are going. "It may GO slowly ; but 
it WILL go." And the chief agent in effecting its 
abolition will be the Spirit of Christ — the Spirit who 
died that there might be no more Death; who was 
slain in order that, throughout the length and breadth 
of a regenerated universe, there might be no more 
slaying. — Rev. Walter Walsh. 



I am more thoroughly convinced than ever that 
meat eating is not only entirely unnecessary, but is 
physically harmful as well as an unspiritual practice. 

Dr. J. H. Kellogg. 



With science and justice against it, animal slaugh- 
ter, like human slavery, will be swept down before the 
rising tide of universal brotherhood. — L. W. Rogers. 



The habit of murdering animals is degrading;, 
even beef-loving England will not, it is said, allow 
a butcher to serve on a jury if the case to be tried 
is one involving human life. — Susanna Dodd, M. D. 



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,-^They pray for mercy whilst they themselves are 
merciless. — Sir Edwin Arnold. 



There surely can be no difference of opinion as to 
the proposition that all this horrible slaughter is in- 
deed a terrible crime. 

If the world were Vegetarian, not a man would 
be brutalized by the daily slaughter of hundreds of 
gentle creatures. — Mrs. M. R. L. Sharpe. 



Ah, the cruelty of it all ! The wrong of it all ! 
The shame of it all ! The horror of the cattle-truck, 
the greater horrors of the cattle-boat, the blows and 
kicks, the hunger and thirst, the cold and wretched- 
ness, the accidents in transit, atrocities of the 
abattoirs, the enormities of the private slaughter- 
house, the ipole-axe, the knife, the dagger, the flaying 
of still living animals, the dismembering of still 
quivering carcasses, make up a tale of suffering, a 
list of horrors (not by any means exhaustive), which 
must be dinned into the ears of unthinking and un- 
reasoning Christians, however pious in their own 
eyes, and however much they resent it. 

Rev. A. M. Michell, M. A. 



Man is not of the order of carnivorous animals, 
and no amount of sophistical jugglery can prove him 
to be so. He is declared by the most eminent au- 
thorities to be of the frugivorous order, and if, after 
science has spoken, man persists in his carnivorous 



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practices, he will do so because he lusts after the 
flesh of God's inoffensive creatures, and not because 
he believes he was intended by his Creator to be a 
meat-eater. — Sir William Earnshaw Cooper, CLE. 



You call it meat. Give it the correct name, de- 
caying flesh of the carcasses of murdered animals, 
and you will soon lose your depraved appetite to de- 
vour it. — Chas. A. Seifert. 



Flesh-eating is the greatest superstition of our age. 
Flesh-eating is the greatest blot on our civilization. 
Its evil effects are strong and far-reaching. It bru- 
talizes (in proportion) all those who come in contact 
with it. The effect it has upon our children (our fu- 
ture generation) is most terrible. It blunts their finer 
feelings. It brutalizes and degrades their whole be- 
ings. It makes them indifferent to bloodshed. 

Come out of the dark and enter the ranks of free 
and enlightened men and women. Be not enslaved to 
the majority, who are as yet (unfortunately) in the 
wrong as to diet. Be no coward and side with the 
few who dare to be humane and right. Slaughter is 
against the nobler feelings of every person. 

MOSHEH I. LlTTAUER. 



As recruiting agents of evil, I consider meat and 
rum fairly evenly matched, with the balance of power 
in favor of meat, which pollutes the body and ex- 
ercises evil influences in the generation yet to be born. 
— Henry Ward Beecher. 







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